- Sep 28, 2014
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It's a long story, but in short, I installed a new video card today, and now my PC keeps rebooting when I'm in Overwatch or other games. I then get a message on bootup that ASUS anti-surge triggered a power surge and shut my PC off for my own safety.
The longer story: I bought a GTX 1060 last month and used it perfectly fine for two weeks until one day, the GPU started shutting my PC off randomly and would spin the fans very loud each time. I considered this a case of my GPU being faulty and sent it back in for a replacement from Amazon. I then gamed with my old GPU, a Radeon HD 7950 just fine until the replacement GTX 1060 came in today. Now, with the new 1060 in, I'm having this problem w/ ASUS anti-surge.
My concerns and confusion:
My specs:
The longer story: I bought a GTX 1060 last month and used it perfectly fine for two weeks until one day, the GPU started shutting my PC off randomly and would spin the fans very loud each time. I considered this a case of my GPU being faulty and sent it back in for a replacement from Amazon. I then gamed with my old GPU, a Radeon HD 7950 just fine until the replacement GTX 1060 came in today. Now, with the new 1060 in, I'm having this problem w/ ASUS anti-surge.
My concerns and confusion:
■ I used this setup -- this precise combination of graphics card and power supply etc -- just fine for a while. This is why I'm skeptical that one of my components is suddenly bad, but who knows, maybe I'm wrong.
■ My drivers are definitely all up to date.
■ This reboot has happened when I'm in a game for over an hour, and also when just launching a game and being in the main menu for 10 seconds. At the same time, I also played games for hours and hours today without any problems.
My specs:
■ OS: Windows 10, latest update
■ CPU: Intel i5 4690
■ Motherboard: ASUS Z87-A
■ RAM: 12GB
■ GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 OCV1
■ PSU: Corsair CX600M
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