- Dec 29, 2016
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My computer is on an AFCI circuit, and over the past couple months I've been getting really random reboots/BSOD's on my computer and also the AFCI breaker trips. I've replaced both the outlet and the 15Amp AFCI breaker and that didn't fix it. The BSOD's are usually random, I've gotten a USB driver related one, a memory related one, and a few others but the computer always BSOD's and restarts and I have an Error 41 in my event log. I did turn off automatic restart on blue screens and it will stay running and display the BSOD. It's not specifically a windows issue either since it has happened on my linux partition as well although linux seems to handle it better and switches to my battery backup gracefully without restarting.
I don't think it's my PSU since it seems to stay on during all of this and I don't hear any weird sounds or a click or a pop of something restarting or switching quickly. I could be very wrong about that though if it's some weird short or spike and then the AFCI is tripping and my battery backup doesn't kick on before windows detects an issue. I tested my PSU with both a tester and back probing with a multimeter and all the voltages seem fine.
Memtest86 is showing some errors but only in Test 13 - Hammer test, which i've read is a pretty extreme test and not completely indicative of an issue.
The problem again is extremely random and sometimes I can go weeks without it happening but sometimes it happens several days in a row when doing nothing in particular. It happens under full load when gaming, or nearly idle when just using a text editor.
Has anyone seen something outside a PSU trip a breaker? Can my PSU be bad even if all the voltages seem correct? Bad motherboard? Bad Memory? Everything posts fine and seems stable. It just happens out of nowhere. I'm not running any overclocks although I did notice when I had an overclock it seemed a little more frequent but i would still label it as pretty random.
What else can I try to isolate the issue or at least make it more reproducible?
System
i7 3770K
Asus P8 Z77-V PRO
EVGA 980Ti
32 GB (4x8GB) DDR3 12800 Dominator Ram
Corsair HX850W
I don't think it's my PSU since it seems to stay on during all of this and I don't hear any weird sounds or a click or a pop of something restarting or switching quickly. I could be very wrong about that though if it's some weird short or spike and then the AFCI is tripping and my battery backup doesn't kick on before windows detects an issue. I tested my PSU with both a tester and back probing with a multimeter and all the voltages seem fine.
Memtest86 is showing some errors but only in Test 13 - Hammer test, which i've read is a pretty extreme test and not completely indicative of an issue.
The problem again is extremely random and sometimes I can go weeks without it happening but sometimes it happens several days in a row when doing nothing in particular. It happens under full load when gaming, or nearly idle when just using a text editor.
Has anyone seen something outside a PSU trip a breaker? Can my PSU be bad even if all the voltages seem correct? Bad motherboard? Bad Memory? Everything posts fine and seems stable. It just happens out of nowhere. I'm not running any overclocks although I did notice when I had an overclock it seemed a little more frequent but i would still label it as pretty random.
What else can I try to isolate the issue or at least make it more reproducible?
System
i7 3770K
Asus P8 Z77-V PRO
EVGA 980Ti
32 GB (4x8GB) DDR3 12800 Dominator Ram
Corsair HX850W
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