My motherboard, an Asus P8 Z77-V LK, has, as of yesterday morning, been reporting power supply surges from my Corsair CX750M whenever I try to boot up a game. This is strange because the system has been running fine with this power supply for two years, and I see no changes to make it run differently. The most recent change I made to the system was installing a Sabrent internal card reader on Saturday. Sunday night, I had played more than an hour of Team Fortress Two and had no issues, which confuses me even more as to what changed between then and the next morning. So far, I have tried...
-Plugging the computer into multiple locations on my power strip
-Unplugging everything from the power strip save the computer and one monitor (I have two monitors.)
-Plugging the computer directly into the wall
-Unplugging the USB 2.0 card reader I installed on Saturday
The power strip is a little less than a month old, and is very heavy duty.
My system is as follows
Windows 10
Asus P8 Z77-V LK
Intel i5 3579K (Not overclocked)
Corsair CX750M
PNY 2G 960GTX
Western Digital 1TB Hard Drive
PNY 240GB SSD
PNY 16GB DDR3 RAM
2X Optical Drives (Different brands, one is Asus, don't know about the other, but the other was salvaged from an older system, it's been in there for the whole life of the system)
Sabrent internal card reader (Installed Saturday)
As for the actual issue itself, here is what happens: I will boot up a game, be it I Am Bread or Just Cause 3, and the game will run for either a few seconds in the case of I Am Bread, which is installed on the HD and thus takes a while to load, or about 15 seconds in the case of Just Cause 3, which is installed on the SSD. My theory is that something changed and whenever the system requests more power, the motherboard senses this as a surge and crashes the system. As for what changed, I don't know what. One interesting thing that happened is when I booted up Photoshop CC 2015, the power supply surge triggered and crashed the system, but when I booted up Photoshop again on the next power up, the system held up fine. I almost hazard to say that the system can run for slightly longer each time I boot up a game after a crash.
UPDATE: I just played Just Cause 3 for a good thirty seconds and it did not crash the system. This is much longer than I have been able to play the game before. However, after this, I tried booting up I Am Bread, and the power supply surge triggered before the game could even finish loading.
-Plugging the computer into multiple locations on my power strip
-Unplugging everything from the power strip save the computer and one monitor (I have two monitors.)
-Plugging the computer directly into the wall
-Unplugging the USB 2.0 card reader I installed on Saturday
The power strip is a little less than a month old, and is very heavy duty.
My system is as follows
Windows 10
Asus P8 Z77-V LK
Intel i5 3579K (Not overclocked)
Corsair CX750M
PNY 2G 960GTX
Western Digital 1TB Hard Drive
PNY 240GB SSD
PNY 16GB DDR3 RAM
2X Optical Drives (Different brands, one is Asus, don't know about the other, but the other was salvaged from an older system, it's been in there for the whole life of the system)
Sabrent internal card reader (Installed Saturday)
As for the actual issue itself, here is what happens: I will boot up a game, be it I Am Bread or Just Cause 3, and the game will run for either a few seconds in the case of I Am Bread, which is installed on the HD and thus takes a while to load, or about 15 seconds in the case of Just Cause 3, which is installed on the SSD. My theory is that something changed and whenever the system requests more power, the motherboard senses this as a surge and crashes the system. As for what changed, I don't know what. One interesting thing that happened is when I booted up Photoshop CC 2015, the power supply surge triggered and crashed the system, but when I booted up Photoshop again on the next power up, the system held up fine. I almost hazard to say that the system can run for slightly longer each time I boot up a game after a crash.
UPDATE: I just played Just Cause 3 for a good thirty seconds and it did not crash the system. This is much longer than I have been able to play the game before. However, after this, I tried booting up I Am Bread, and the power supply surge triggered before the game could even finish loading.
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