Random freezing and now unable to boot computer

anderb30

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For the past several weeks my desktop has been freezing up randomly, think once a week. It usually has been able to start back up regularly. This last week the freezing has been more common(2-3 times a week) up until today.

Today, it froze, and then would not reboot. The computer would turn on, but nothing would post on the display. I ran the MemOK on my MOBO and it started up after a couple minutes. It then froze again after a few minutes of being on.

Now it will boot to BIOS, but when ever I try to boot after BIOS from my HDD it restarts, and takes me to American Megatrends menu(before the bios) and says that "Power supply surges detected during the previous power on. ASUS Anti-Surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply unit!"

Here is my set up:
Corsair Carbide Series 400R

ASUS P8Z77-V LK LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High

XFX Double D FX-787A-CDFC Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX

Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics

2 x CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10

My question is what should I do next? I originally thought that it was a RAM issue, and was going to run memtest, but now the ASUS Anti-Surge is triggering. Help? Thank you in advance.
 
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If you get "Anti-Surge" errors during boot it means that over-voltage protections on the motherboard got tripped. This can be caused either by excessively sensitive protections on the motherboard or dirty power from the PSU. Without a multimeter and oscilloscope, it is probably impossible to tell for sure which is which.

You could also try disabling anti-surge from the BIOS and see if that helps before trying to replace either the motherboard or PSU.

hybird9012

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I recommend getting a new PSU first to see if the problem reoccurs. If not, then simply return the power supply. My next suspicion would be the condition of your hard drive. If you go into BIOS and check your SATA mode, is it IDE or AHCI? If it is on IDE then switch it to AHCI, that should fix intermittent freezing. However, if the problem doesn't go away after that and you experience issues when loading into Windows, it will probably be your hard drive.
 

InvalidError

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If you get "Anti-Surge" errors during boot it means that over-voltage protections on the motherboard got tripped. This can be caused either by excessively sensitive protections on the motherboard or dirty power from the PSU. Without a multimeter and oscilloscope, it is probably impossible to tell for sure which is which.

You could also try disabling anti-surge from the BIOS and see if that helps before trying to replace either the motherboard or PSU.
 
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