That old Asus anti-surge malarkey ! After an updated bios, is it time to RMA my PSU ?

Danofski

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Hi board.

So the ever common problem of Asus' anti surge feature on their motherboards has been showing up on my system over the past few weeks or so. I've heard this could be a faulty reading and that it's very sensitive - I also checked my PSU voltages and they seemed within voltage tolerances so thought it could just be a bad mobo reading.
However I'm starting to doubt this after updating my BIOS and AI Suite2 popping up and giving me a few +12v warnings recently.

Had my system running fine for the past two years, then recently after episodes of gaming it'd shut off the system and give me "Asus Anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply unit". Started to happen more and more frequently, and would even happen during web browsing. Updated my BIOS and had no issues for over a week and thought my problems had ended, then last night after playing wow all night it happened again.

AI suite has also popped up with "Warning +12.v" and "Warning +5v" recently.

So, is it time to RMA my PSU ?
Today I've also been noticing my +12v dropping down to 11.8~ alot in AIsuite which I've never noticed before. (Allthough it's well within tolerance range isn't it ? I'm not exactly a PSU expert)

Any advice that could be given would be appreciated, thanks.

i5-3570k
asus p8-7zz-v
8gb gelid corsa RAM
gtx 550ti
Corsair GS 600w PSU
 

Danofski

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I thought Corsair had quite a good reputation when it comes to PSU's ?
That's the link I used to check PSU voltage tolerances to conclude it wasn't dying.
Also, I'm fairly sure I'd get a newer model if I RMA'd.

Anything else you could add to test whether it's on its way out, or worth the RMA ?