Asus Anti-Surge Protection trigger

Johnson Deng

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A few weeks back I came across a problem with my computer where it was randomly restarting and shutting down, I came to the conclusion to find out that my power supply was faulty. I then replaced the power supply, processor, and motherboard and my computer started working fine again.

Today my power went out for a second and everything turned off and restarted itself afterwards and my computer went to the Asus Anti-Surge protection screen which was telling me that it turned itself off to protect from an unstable power supply. My question is that would a power outage for a second trigger the Anti-Surge protection and if I should be worried that I got this warning?

The parts are literally 10 days old and I'm extremely skeptical to think that they would be faulty.

Specs:
Intel Core i7 4790K Quad Core @ 4GHZ
ASUS Z97 Pro Gamer ATX LGA1150
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB GDDR5
Corsair RM750x Fully Modular Power Supply 80+ Gold
Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz DDR3
Crucial BX200 480GB SATA SSD
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 16MB Cache 7200RPM SATA HDD
 

Johnson Deng

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Okay so it is normal that it triggers if my power went out for a second? It wasn't just my PC that turned off but my router that was plugged into the same outlet as well. Is it worth it to buy a receptacle tester just in case?

I don't want the same shit that happened to my previous power supply just a few weeks ago.
 

Nathan Bumgarner

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Don't be worried that you got the message. It's just telling you what you already know. You got a surge and it protected your motherboard like it was suppose to. Just worry if you start getting it randomly like me