Pc shut itself off and won't boot up or start up, Red light inside case.

DeadExcuses · Apr 13, 2015

I was playing a game that dosnt take much power to run when suddenly my computer crashed no warning, no time to react. I look inside the case and I see a red light I have no idea what this means as I am sort of new to computers. This is happened before in the past when I installed my 250 GB SSD it fixed itself but it took quite a long time. I would like to know what it is so I can hopefully stop it from happening again .

DeadExcuses · Apr 13, 2015

Additional notes. When It finally comes back up it says "Asus anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply unit. Is that all this really was?

Karadjgne · Apr 13, 2015

Part of what makes Asus one of the leaders in quality mobo's is the little things like the anti-surge. This is a good thing. The bad thing is you just found a need for it. I suspect that you have either a psu that's going bad, a bad psu, or a very very cheap psu that doesn't have the full range of surge protections like over-voltage, over-current, spike etc and allowed a household electrical surge to pass right through it.

Knowing your full system specs, most importantly the model, make and brand of your psu would help a lot in this case.

DeadExcuses · Apr 13, 2015

I couldnt find the reply button on mobile so ill just do it like this.

The pcu im using os the CX600M
http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=N82E16817139048

I would list all specs but id rather not go look through alot of websites for the exact parts i got.

Update- it shut off while idle which makes me belive its not the psu. Should i shut it off and see how it goes?

Karadjgne · Apr 13, 2015

That's not a bad psu, not a good one, but not bad. Solidly mediocre. It has decent protections.

So, either it's failing (possible, the CX series does use some not so good capacitors) or something else in your pc is failing (possibly the gpu) and spiked the motherboard.

Either way, hopefully, this was just a fluke and doesn't happen again.

DeadExcuses · Apr 14, 2015

What would d you recommend for a 600w psu?

Karadjgne · Apr 14, 2015

I wouldn't. Depending on your gpu needs, I'd either move down to 520/550w of which there are several extremely good quality psus, or move upto 620/650w which again has several extremely good quality psus. It's unfortunate, but 600w seems to be the missing link in quality psus.

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