PC shutting down due to power surges.

BarryH

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Dec 29, 2013
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Hi,

I recently bought a new PC, all was well for the first few days but then it started to shut down abruptly on its own, and then boot back up again with a warning that ASUS anti surge was triggered because power surges had been detected in the last power up so it was shut down to protect the system.

This happened maybe two or three times in the first month i had the PC, today however it has gotten dramatically worse and has shut down about eight times already. It always seems to happen when i am playing either WoW or Diablo, it has never happened when i was for example just browsing the web.

Can someone shed some light as to what might be the cause of this, maybe its the ASUS anti surge that is somehow falsely being triggered ? And if so in what way would this effect my motherboard ?

Here is some technical info:

CPU Prozessor: Intel Core i7-4770K 4x 3.50GHz

Mainboard: ASUS H87M-E (C2) (Sound5.1 G-LAN SATA3 USB 3.0)

Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3X OC 2GB GDDR5

Memory: 8 GB RAM ELIXIR / G-Skill DDR-3 PC1600

Power Supply Unit (PSU):Corsair VS Series VS650 650W ATX 2.3


Any help is much appreciated, and if any more information is needed just ask.

Regards
 

jay2577

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It is probably a faulty power supply unit but take it back under warranty and get them to fix it.
Next time consider building a system yourself. It will be cheaper and you can use higher higher quality components.