Power Surge Detected system reboots

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Hi all, never have I had this problem until last week. Last week it happened once after the PC was on for about 8 hours and I assumed that it was just that it was time for the inside of the case to be sprayed with a can of air. I did that and today, the problem occurred again just browsing the internet with a youtube video (music) playing in different tab on FireFox. As of now I went to the BIOS and changed the system performance from normal to Power Saving. I've heard that Asus's surge protection can be a bit of a helicopter parent so to speak but I'm afraid if I disable it, something worse may happen.

This is my build

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/NGX159/saved/9jDcCJ

The PSU is plugged into a surge protector along side my route and a retro gaming console and TV leaving only one socket open. It's not the motherboard as I just got a new 212 EVO fan installed a month ago. Could it possibly be the PSU going bad?
 
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Well still no luck. Here's my output

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I've heard that it's ok to disable the ASUS Anti Surge through the BIOS. I'll check to see if my BIOS needs to be updateed, and if it's up to date, I may possibly see the Protection as the culprit. It's never had this problem before even when the case is dusty which isn't now.
 
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Those conclusons are based only in word association. A power surge can be too little current. Or it can be a low voltage. Or it can be excessive current. A conclusion made without understanding the associated numbers is, unffortunately, junk science.

Asus is reporting a low voltage; not a high voltage surge. The word surge can mean anything when perspective (numbers) are not included. For example, your power supply may be defective and may have been defective when first purchased. But has degraded just enough for the Asus voltage monitor to defect it. Normal is for a defective supply to boot and run a computer. To say more requires a volt meter and instructions on how to get relevant numbers. Since those numbers are also necessary to define which (of many power system components) is causing this warning message.

A power strip protector, that also does not claim to protect from another and potentially destructive surge, is completely irrelevant to what concerns the Asus.


 
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