Bulb flicker for 1ms. Is this reason to worry?

sewerino26 · 12 Aug 2020 at 18:08

Hello. Today in night bulb in my room flicker for maybe 1ms,so fast. Light flicker for 1ms. It happened once. And never in past. Now its fine again. Is this reason to worry? There is not storm here in Poland,also weather is warm. No circuit overload,only laptop and pc on.

Like i said never happened before.
pc
9700K stock
2x16GB DDR4 GSKILL 3000MHZ
Aorus Z390 Pro Gaming
Seasonic Prime TX-750
Aorus Waterforce 2080 Ti Xtreme

darael · 12 Aug 2020 at 18:14

If it's an LED bulb, it's probably on it's way out. I find LED bulbs don't last any longer than 2 years, with 1 year being the typical life expectancy.

sewerino26 · 12 Aug 2020 at 20:15

its cfl bulb.Any difference?

wolfie138 · 13 Aug 2020 at 08:15

for one millisecond? :-/

Toothy1911 · 13 Aug 2020 at 08:22

Could just be a slight interruption in power supply. Or a large electrical draw nearby. Not enough to turn anything off, but enough to cause a slight flickering.

sewerino26 · 13 Aug 2020 at 20:16

But if happened once and now its ok again,its fine? I am scared about pc a little ( paranoia heeh )

wolfie138 · 14 Aug 2020 at 08:28

I went through 4 months of sporadic mega flickering due to a cable decaying somewhere under the street. there were a couple times the puter fans started labouring etc, but there was no damage. the flickers are caused by voltage drops, no spikes, so there should be little risk to your machine. get yourself a surge protected plug anyways, just for safety.

sewerino26 · 14 Aug 2020 at 18:56

So if it happened once for 1ms no reason to worry about pc?
( bulb from lamp just flicker to more darker for 1ms )

marms · 14 Aug 2020 at 19:30

sewerino26 said:
So if it happened once for 1ms no reason to worry about pc?
( bulb from lamp just flicker to more darker for 1ms )

Maybe you blinked without realising.

Akagi · 14 Aug 2020 at 19:32

Happens in my house from time to time. All of the lights dim slightly. Nothing has exploded yet.

tom_nieto · 14 Aug 2020 at 19:42

I’d be more worried about your ghost problem than your PC!

koooowweeee · 14 Aug 2020 at 20:46

Definitely phone the police and the fire brigade. Maybe phone the ghost busters too.

My PC is old.

Thekwango · 14 Aug 2020 at 20:56

aww man, it's your light bulb flickering now for 1ms.....well at least it isn't a 2fps drop during a 326hr bench mark or summat like that.

jcr · 18 Aug 2020 at 09:00

sewerino26 said:
But if happened once and now its ok again,its fine? I am scared about pc a little ( paranoia heeh )

if youre using a surge protector your pc will be fine. if youre not, you should be.