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Especially not through the GFCI next to the panel in the basement.
If it was my house, I'd put the bedroom receptacles on a breaker and rewire the panel GFCI to be on it's own.
Could it be this was done because adding a GFCI in the bathroom ran into a problem with the existing box being "crowded" ? So someone cut into the cable for that circuit at the panel, and added a inline GFCI there, rather than going to a GFCI breaker ?
This happened to me recently where I moved into a house and several of the outlets dont work. Like in one room they completely dont work, adn other rooms only some work
I am having this same problem. I flipped every breaker switch in the panel and hit test and reset on every gfci I could find. What seems odd though is 2 of the gfci outlets I found the "reset" buttons did not pop out as far as the others when I hit "test". However, both of those outlets worked. Could that be an issue for my 2 non gfi outlets?
Outlets in bathroom and outside stopped working - fix
All of a sudden, all of my bathroom outlets stopped working. Then i went to plug in Christmas lights in our outdoor outlet that stopped working as well. I reset all of our breakers and even the main breaker. No luck (all 3 times I tried this )This was driving me crazy. I checked all outlets in the house but none had GFI. Finally, it dawned on me to check garage outlets. 1 outlet had GFI that had tripped. I reset it and now all outlets inside and outside work fine. Found out that sometimes, an outlet with GFI in them is installed. Once one is tripped, other outlets near areas that could get damp or wet (like bathrooms, laundry rooms, outdoor outlets) may trip and no longer work. reset that one GFI outlet, and all will be working again!
All of a sudden, all of my bathroom outlets stopped working. Then i went to plug in Christmas lights in our outdoor outlet that stopped working as well. I reset all of our breakers and even the main breaker. No luck (all 3 times I tried this )This was driving me crazy. I checked all outlets in the house but none had GFI. Finally, it dawned on me to check garage outlets. 1 outlet had GFI that had tripped. I reset it and now all outlets inside and outside work fine. Found out that sometimes, an outlet with GFI in them is installed. Once one is tripped, other outlets near areas that could get damp or wet (like bathrooms, laundry rooms, outdoor outlets) may trip and no longer work. reset that one GFI outlet, and all will be working again!
Actually what it appears is that you had one GFI outlet at the beginning of a circuit that had other outlets daisy chained off of it. When the GFCI tripped, it killed power to every outlet in that circuit. So essentially you had power going into the GFCI outlet, but nothing coming out so any outlet in that circuit was affected.
My dining room and one guest bedroom outer walls are tied into the GFCI outlets on the front porch. If one trips, those walls also lose power. Same in my master bath. The outlet next to the sink is in the same circuit with the overhead hallway and shower light. If it trips, you lose power to that entire side of the bathroom.
Common for all the bathroom outlets in a 1976-1986 house to be daisy-chained off one GFCI outlet in guest bath
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Originally Posted by Nlambert
Actually what it appears is that you had one GFI outlet at the beginning of a circuit that had other outlets daisy chained off of it. When the GFCI tripped, it killed power to every outlet in that circuit. So essentially you had power going into the GFCI outlet, but nothing coming out so any outlet in that circuit was affected.
Blame it on cost-conscious builders, when GFCI in "wet areas" was newly mandated by code (Circa 1975) and also very expensive, it was cheaper to run extra cable than to install numerous GFCI outlets/breakers.
It's fun when all the bathroom outlets suddenly go dead and you have to track down that one GFCI that was installed in the unused guest bath and is now old and subject to nuisance trips.
Question......I have the same problem with a master bedroom. All plugs and the light switch do not work. They just stopped out of the blue. I have checked of recommendation posted and still no power in the room. Could it be that the circuit breaker for the room is bad?
You could call your electric utility company. This happened to a few houses here lately. Everybody thought they were the only house. See how your neighbor's house is doing. The electric company thought it could be the transformer. BUT,no it was caused by a nik in the underground electric line ever so slight that was caused by the auger from the gas company and it took a few years and lots of rain for the results to reveal themselves. They come out as an emergency. They take care of notifying all the other utilities. All fixed all free.
Question......I have the same problem with a master bedroom. All plugs and the light switch do not work. They just stopped out of the blue. I have checked of recommendation posted and still no power in the room. Could it be that the circuit breaker for the room is bad?
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Outlets in bathroom and outside stopped working - fix
)This was driving me crazy. I checked all outlets in the house but none had GFI. Finally, it dawned on me to check garage outlets. 1 outlet had GFI that had tripped. I reset it and now all outlets inside and outside work fine. Found out that sometimes, an outlet with GFI in them is installed. Once one is tripped, other outlets near areas that could get damp or wet (like bathrooms, laundry rooms, outdoor outlets) may trip and no longer work. reset that one GFI outlet, and all will be working again! 
Common for all the bathroom outlets in a 1976-1986 house to be daisy-chained off one GFCI outlet in guest bath
