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Hello, I've been having a lot of issues with my PC lately, I overclocked my i5 4690k on a Z97-p, it has a 750w cooler master PSU and a 1080 strix GPU. I removed the overclock since it was the only thing I could think of that would make it crash, but it still crashes even when I set everything on default, nothing seems to work I even tried to reset the motherboard plus updating the version of the bios but nothing works. The crash happens about the time Windows boots up, if I'm lucky I will be able to stay on it for at least 30 min before it goes down again. This is really frustrating can anyone help me?

First here are the parts i have in my Pc- https://pcpartpicker.com/list/q8QT6X my PC is also just over 1 years old and I had basically the same problem before but fixed it somehow and i honestly forgot. Second i started having this issue after i updated my bios. Some of you may have heard of it but it's an American Megatrends power supply surge detection that is the issue. I have done some research about it and people mentioned that it could be a problem with my PSU or the software is just bugging out. What happens on my end is I normally shutdown my pc at night because I have a SSD and I don't find it annoying powering up everytime. When i push the button on my pc a good second or 2 will go by and then my Pc will turn on (This isn't normal. Normally it powers up immediately). So it will start by showing the EVGA logo and if i want to go into the BIOS settings or not and then after that it will show the screen with the surge detection. It gives me an option to go through the bios or (F1 to run setup), so I click that and it will load the BIOS and all i do is press save and exit. After i press that it will load up my PC like there is nothing wrong with it and I can use it normally with no problems at all (except when i shut it down and try to start it back up of course). I updated my BIOS to see if it would fix this problem with a driver I was having, but it didn't fix it and i found a different fix for it anyways. I figured I could just fix the problem by going back to the old version of the BIOS so I did and it fixed it, but what i noticed was the Anti-surge protection software wasn't even there so technically it was off meaning even if there was a problem it wouldn't even do anything about it. So I kind of want it on just in case I actually do have problems, but i find it really annoying on startup. I want to keep my BIOS up to date just to make sure it doesn't cause any problems later. I heard people say its just a software bug and that's what it sounds like it is, but i don't want to turn that feature off just in case. My BIOS settings are almost default and even at default it still had the problem and also I don't overclock anything. I'm just asking is there anyway I could keep the BIOS update and stop this problem at startup.

Today I turned on my pc like I did last night, I didn't even try to mess around with bios settings, everything was un-OC'd and all settings were the same, nothing was updated and nothing was deleted, I booted my pc up, seeing the screen displaying Anti-Surge detected a power surge and it decided to make me go in bios and mess with some stuff, okay I set everything to default, set my fan limits back to "ignore", then it runs on smoothly, after I booted up a game and played for around 5-10 minutes, it suddenly shuts down and reboots again, I thought it was a problem with my GPU, so I turned on Furmark and started a GPU test, the first time screwed it up immediately, after messing with some settings, I managed to run furmark with my GTX 1070 for 5-10 minutes and it was alright, I started browsing for more information about this situation but the pc suddenly shut down after browsing for 5 minutes, I started wondering if it was a timed reboot or something, it has never happened before for the past 2 months after I built my pc, here is my pc build : CPU : Intel i7-6700k MotherBoard : ASUS Maximus VIII Hero GPU : MSI GTX 1070 CPU Cooler : Corsair h100iv2 Power Supply : Corsair RMX750 Gold Full Modular RAM : HyperX Fury DDR4 16GB Memory Storages : 1. Kingston 250GB SSD 2. WDC Western Digital 1TB HDD

So, after months of preparation and waiting for back-to-school deals, I built a custom PC in August 10 using these parts: Core i7 6700K CPU (@4.64 GHZ) ASUS Z170-A Motherboard Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB RAM (2 x 8GB sticks) ASUS ROG STRIX GTX Geforce 1070 (non-OC edition) Graphics Card Corsair RM650x PSU Samsung 850 EVO 250GB Storage Corsair H110i GT CPU Cooler For full details: http://pcpartpicker.com/b/8h4CmG Recent additions: 3 x Noctua NF-A14 iPPC PWM fans (2 on the radiatior, 1 as Exhaust) I do plan to expand memory and storage, but before I do something weird started happening after I finished overclocking my CPU and GPU about a week after I overclocked things, which are both stable if Realbench, Cinebench, and Valley Unigine benchmarks are to be believed. What started happening is that after the computer falls asleep (I set it to 30 minutes of inactivity), and I try to wake the computer up, the DRAM_LED on my motherboard lights up. Instead of pressing the MemOK button, I shut the entire system down by holding the power button down. I turn on the system shortly afterward, and I get the "ASUS Anti-Surge Protection was triggered due to unstable power supply..." blah blah blah. And it also tells me that the Overclock failed. I reran my overclock tests and stress tested for 3 hours on the CPU. All tests passed. I still keep getting the trip messages every time I allow the computer to fall asleep. So, I restart the computer, no message. I though that was odd, so I shut down the computer, waited till the computer actually shuts off, cut power, waited a couple seconds. Reintroduced power, and powered on the PC, and this time I still get the ASUS anti-surge message, but no "Overclock failed!" I've ran the computer this way now for almost two weeks and I have not experienced any unexpected restarts, shut offs, data loss, etc. while performing stressful tasks (benchmarks and/or playing games: Overwatch and Witcher 3). I will invest in a new surge protector within the week as I found out that the one I borrowed from my dad was well over 10 years old and used heavily. SO, after all that I have two questions: Should I turn off the ASUS anti-surge protection software in the UEFI BIOS? Or get my hands on a new PSU (either by rma'ing my RM650x or just buying a new psu)?

Hello there. I just built my new gaming PC and as many other users of ASUS's Z170 chipset motherboards, I'm facing some issues with the stupid ASUS Anti-surge system. When the first failure occurred I was under almost idle load on my system, just installing some Steam games, and suddenly my system shut itself down (with 1 or 2 seconds showing some changes on my fans behavior, what makes me think that it was not a simple power outage, but an "intentional" shutdown mechanism triggered by my motherboard (which is a ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme). After the system shutdown, I notice several tries of boot (without my interference, just the PC trying to turn itself on), with no post at all. Just turning on and off repeatedly for about 4 or 5 times, until I switched my PSU off. After that, the system booted properly (with NO error messages during the boot process), and was working fine, until approximately 24 hours later. One day later I faced a system reset, and the system posted with a ASUS anti-surge system error notification. The message was "Asus anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply". I honestly don't think the problem is on my PSU... I have a Corsair AX1200i 80 Plus Platinum (a pretty decent power supply). After that, using Corsair Link software, I spent a long time monitoring/logging my 12v, 5v and 3.3v power lines, and they're pretty stable... 12v: oscillating between 12.0v ~ 12.06v 5v: oscillating between 5v ~ 5.03v 3.3v: oscillating between 3.3v ~ 3.34v After this issue, I already spent about 8 straight hours playing The Division on ultra quality (quite a heavy/resource consuming game), with no instability at all, but after that, I faced the problem once again with my system absolutely idle. System shutting down abruptly and a post right after that giving me the anti-surge warning. After searching for some posts on ASUS's RoG forums, I noticed a lot of users complaining about ASUS's anti-surge system, and many of them was suggesting that this feature should be disabled on it's UEFI option to avoid the problem. Here lies my concern... Is it safe to run my system without this feature? To be honest, this "new" feature doesn't seem to be working properly yet, and it seems to be causing more problems than protection to the system. I'd like to have some thoughts about that. Have you guys faced similar problems with Z170 chipset based motherboards? Additional information: The system is not overclocked at all yet. The only changes I've made on my UEFI was to activate XMP Profile 1 for my DDR4 (Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB - 4x4GB - 2666Mhz), and to set my Corsair Carbide 540 case fans to be at a fixed 900 RPM. (BTW: In despite of having a 4 channel memory kit, CPU-Z says my memory is working in dual channel mode). *** EDIT *** possibly related issue: I'm using Windows 10 Pro 64bits, and I can restart my system, but when I try to shut it down from Windows, it prepares itself to shut down, turns off my video card signal, but the system (fans, leds on motherboard) keeps running with no video. I already saw some posts related to similar issues, but all of them mentioning Windows 7 specific problematic services. Thoughts? Thanks in advance guys! Full System Specs: CPU - Intel Core i7-6700 Motherboard - ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme RAM - Corsair Dominator Platinum Series 16GB (4x4GB) GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SC+ ACX 2.0+ Case - Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 Silver Edition Storage - Kingston HyperX Savage 480GB PSU - Corsair AX1200i 80 PLUS Platinum Here follows some CPU-Z screenshots.

So i recently made a completely new build. It has run without any complaints at all untill roughly 3 days ago. Then suddenly my Pc starts shutting down, when it reboots i get a message saying "Asus Anti-Surge has been triggered to protect your components from an unstable power unit". This has really been bugging me, ive tried most of the things i could google but to no success. My build is: Asus X99-A Intel Core i7 - 5820k MSI Geforce GTX980 4GB 16 GB DDR4 Hyper X fury 2400mhz Ram Corsair RM850X What could cause this issue, and is it safe to disable in my bios settings? Could it by any chance have something to do with my CPU being overclocked?

Hey guys! I just my new computer, and it works perfectly! (self build) So here my specs: Intel i7 4790k Corsair h110i GT Asus MAXIMUS VII Ranger Samsung PRO 840 - 256 gb MSI R9 390 - 8GB Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB Corsair MX750 PSU NZXT h440 I was playing dota 2, and suddently the computer shutdown. It started to spell rly burned, and my screen said something with anti-surge from asus. And i should enter BIOS to change something. Should i be concerned, or is this just once in a life time?

So I built this PC in February (5 months) and everything has worked flawlessly... But a few minutes ago, in the middle of playing Shogun 2, my PC just shut's off... I boot it back up and the BIOS says "It sensed a surge or antisurge whatever the hell..." Nothingelse "surged" in my house.. I booted up window's and all is fine (at least it appears that way) Is this normal? I5-4690k Asus Z97-A mobo EVGA GTX 960 Superclocked 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Corsair Vengence CX600w PSU

Whatup lovely people! Well... I'm kinda of screwed here, let me elaborate; So, I was watching the youtubez 4 days ago, decided to hop onto The Witcher 3, played for a bit (I dunno, maybe 10-15 minutes) and boom PC shuts down and I get ASUS Anti-surge was triggered...bla bla bla... faulty power supply unit! (btw that wasn't the first time I got it, but it wasn't frequent at all, happened maybe once or twice during the life time of this PC) Restarted and tried to run the game again, another ASUS Anti-surge appeared (after roughly the same time of playing), happened again (immediately after loading, the third time) and again... Played some Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012, black screen but no Anti-surge (no reboots), Naruto UNSR, black screen too... And at that moment, I realized... I'm fked up! Naturally, I swapped out the PSU with my old one and I got the same results... I didn't really game on it for the last 3 days, but I have done an AIDA64 stress test for 30+ minutes, no problems (checked everything, CPU, FPU, RAM, GPU, HDDs...) and also an OCCT GPU DX11 test for 3 freakin hours with no errors, except before that, I pressed the ON button to start it and I got the damned Anti-Surge message... Disabled Anti-surge in the BIOS, started getting reboots to black screens and no spinning fans (only thing I hear spinning is the hard drive and ofc PSU fan, nothing else nothing else seems to work) and even pink and green screens! lel... The card is an ASUS GTX660 (been running a slight overclock on it for like a year now, +120 core +160 mem +110 power limit, bought it 2 years ago) I habe de: - Intel Core i5 4670k - Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) 2133Mhz - ASUS Gryphon Z87 C2 mobo (C2 is the revision btw) - Corsair CX600 V2 PSU (46 amps on the 12v rail, 11.23 to 11.84 volts while doing the OCCT test, the rest of the rails are fine) I suspect this is the result of ESD (electrical static discharge) effect on my GPU, I was being careful not to touch any soldering points but I might have done it once or twice during cleaning, dunno, leaning heavily towards that conclusion, hopefully you guys could help me figure (possibly) a solution for this cuz right now no manny 2 buy a new card m8s :'(