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I have the following UPS: Cyber Power CP1500PFCLCDa https://www.cyberpower.com/global/en/product/sku/cp1500pfclcda I had it connected to voltage regulator, so pretty much: UPS -> Voltage Regulator -> Power Socket Is there anything wrong with that? In my apartment, power variations (power spikes?) are quite common for some reason, very frequent between 8 a.m. to around 5 p.m. then it goes back to normal. So I had connected my UPS to a Voltage Regulator for extra protection. But, if I were to connect my UPS directly to the Power Socket, could my UPS tank those power variations?

Hello, 3 weeks ago my GPU (MSI GTX 980) was turned off due to a power outage. I came home from work and turned on my pc for about an hour, then went to nap. an hour later my pc wont turn on. i have tested all parts using a text bench and it is definitely the GPU that is the issue. when I have the GPU plugged in, pressing the power button puts power through the PC as my Ram lights up, my CPU fan spins and my GPU's light turns on but all of this only happens for about .02 seconds. then it all turns off instantly. i have not been able to get my PC to post or even turn on for more than 1 second. my CPU (Ryzen 3 3100G) Has no onboard graphics. but i know the issue is my GPU is my GPU fully dead? can i open it up and replace something to make it work again, and why did it only stop working after i personally rebooted it hours after the blackout?

Hi my pc for the last couple of weeks has be kinda restarting itself what i mean by kinda is that after around 6 hours of gaming i will be playing a game and the screen will go black and the fans of the pc with rev up and the pc will turn off then on again to fast for a restart to happen but once done the screen are black the only way to get them to work again is to hard reset the pc. (this mostly happens when i am playing games) ive tried to see if i could work it out myself so here is myself anaysis: while put in a stress program for 2 hours the program came back with the componts were fine (did this twice on OCCT stress tester) while playing games the temps never go over 70 degrees even before the trips happens after the trips happens on the event viewer all it says it is kernel-power 41 the games the it has happen on is: Escape from Tarkov and destiny 2 my specs for anyone that needs it: Processor (CPU): Ryzen 7 5800x (3.7GHz) Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus X570 AORUS ELITE Memory (RAM): Corsair VENGEANCELPX 16GB (2x 8GB) 3600MHz Graphics Card: 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 SUPER Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5" SSD Storage Drive: Samsung 970 EVO 1 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Power Supply: Corsair RMX750, RMX Series, 80 Plus Gold Certified Processor Cooling: NZXT Kraken X53 240mm Fans: be quiet! Silent Wings 3 120mm x3 Fan Hub: Commander Port Hub just really want to know what i need to do to fix it. i have got a new power surge extention lead on the way but still dont know if that will help please i beg anyone to help me thanks

I recently built my gaming PC with 5800x and 3080 GPU. Is it ok when the system turns off completely when there is a power surge? these per surges are really rare

A while back I bought a pre build "gaming" pc from Amazon. I should note it was refurbished although when I got it it seemed to work fine. The thing is an inspiron 5680 I7-8700 16gb ddr4 ram Gtx 1060 3gb 8F6C9T is the service tag if you're curious about specificly everything in it but it wont matter much for the question I think. Long story short I gotta put my dunce cap on. I know better than to plug so many power hungry things into 1 strip especially one that also powers my pc. Yet that is what I did. As I replaced a set of rechargeable batteries on a charger plugged into said strip I heard an audible pop and smelled that dreaded electrical heat smell. Now when I open it up and get a look nothing looks damaged although I was able detect a faint smell coming from the psu. I could still smell it by the gpu as well but I'm hoping that's just because its so close to to the real source. When plugged in pressing the power button does absolutely nothing. No lights. No fans. Nothing. Now most Dell psu's have some button on that back of it to test the psu. Curiously when. I press that all the lights inside the case come on. Every single fan including the one on the gpu spins up and the little green light stays solid like they say should happen. For a short time I wondered if it was just the litteral power button that had been damaged as I've actually had issues with it in the past not doing anything. After unplugging plugging it back in and tinkering with it it always seemed to fire eventually. I wouldn't have smelled the burnt psu if it was just a bad power button tho. Ive been wanting to upgrade for a while anyway so as of right now I decided to bite the bullet and start over. I'm gonna build my own rig this time rather than pre built. I already bought a new case, power supply, and motherboard. The idea being that I can drop in the cpu, ram, and gpu from my fried pc to see if they will work while I save for some nicer components (looking at getting an i9-9900k, some faster ram ,and eventually get my hands on one of those new 3080s) My question is. Is this safe? Should I be dropping possibly defective parts into my brand new motherboard to see if they work or should I just assume they don't and go without a pc for a while until I get everything else together? So far the parts I have got for my new build are Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro Full Tower Chassis with Window Cases PH-ES614P_BK,Black Motherboard: Asus Prime Z390-A PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 Ga, 80 Plus Gold 850W, Fully Modular Also grabbed a cheap cooler : Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo (will buy something nicer along with the 9900k if the 8700 doesn't work)

hello everyone, so the night before last my 980ti literally went up in smoke, PSU power surge and dead GPU. Luckily nothing else was damaged. My ? to you all is I have $250 for a new or used GPU, my specs are as follows. CPU: 1600AF RAM: 16gb 3200mhz MOBO: ASUS B450 Prime PSU: 700w Thermaltake Smart 80+ GPU: GTX 760 (only other GPU round) Thank you all in advance for any suggestions.

hello fellow members, I just finish building new PC. but it seems like the 1000w psu is too much for my house bandwidth, thus i got 3 power outages so far. Im upgrading to a higher elec. bandwidth, but it takes 7 days to apply. meanwhile im planning to use my PC without aircon on. its basicly all summer here, outdoor temps ranges from 29-34c. room temp where the pc at is around 25-28c. What things i need to monitor when the PC is on load? what temp of cpu/gpu is considered high and could cause damage overtime? Right now im getting a UPS to prevent further power outage damaging my PC (NIC ethernet port just stop working last night and i just bought a usb>Lan connector) Any other pre cautious i need to do? i just want to ensure everything's alright. thanks

I've been getting hit with Asus Anti-Surge Protection out of the blue recently, I've tried everything, I have no clue what else I can do. I haven't had a single issue with my build until now. Built somewhere between 2013-2016. I installed a new Thermaltake Smart Pro 650W last night, 5min into CS:GO anti-surge is trigger and back to ruin my entire night. My BIOS is updated, drives updated, I'm in the dark now on this... [UserBenchmarks: Game 78%, Desk 89%, Work 63%] https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/26575407 My Build - Intel Core i7-6700K 4 GHz Quad-Core Processor Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black 55 CFM CPU Cooler Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S ATX LGA1151 Motherboard EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SC GAMING ACX 2.0+ Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory Samsung 850 Pro Series 256 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive OCZ ModXStream Pro Power Supply - 600W JUST INSTALLED Thermaltake Smart Pro 650W I no longer believe the PSU is the issue, it must be my GPU or MoBo. I don't know how I can figure out if that's true as I have no backups to test with. Any ideas?

I've gotten this screen a few times in the last 12 hours. It's done it twice upon launching a game. It's also done it randomly after a few hours of being on without doing anything. It does it whether I'm plugged directly into the wall or into my power strip, which doesn't have surge protection. Is this likely a bricked PSU?

Hello everyone, A few days ago, my computer shut off randomly and wouldn't turn back on. Eventually it turned on and one of the capasitors on my motherboard blew and my PSU started smoking. I have since RMA'd both and got replacements. I then fitted the replacements and turned it on. All of the fans turned on; including case fans, GPU fans and CPU fans, indicating that there was power to the board. However, there was no power to the rear i/o (my keyboard and mouse didn't light up, and there was no picture coming from both the VGA port on my motherboard and the HDMI and VGA on my GPU. I was certain that the CPU had failed me until I found out that RAM failure can produce the same symptoms. I do not have the recources to try the RAM nor CPU in another PC as the only other PC I have is a 2001 Dell. By what you can see here, do you think the problem is with the RAM or the CPU, or both? Thanks for you replies, my build is listed below: AMD FX: 8320 Asus GTX 750 $60 MSI Motherboard (I am uncertain of the name) Corsair CX-500M Corair Vengance RAM 8GB (2*4GB, both sticks don't work) WD 1TB HDD Generic Mid-Tower Case

So I recently stuck my WD portable HDD into my laptop in the dark and ended up breaking my USB port...But instead of the darn thing just not working, it also has my laptop bombarding me with the "Power Surge on the USB port" notification. Please help me get rid of that damn thing!

I a power surge and it killed my entire system CPU, Power supply, motherboard, graphics card and my UPS only thing that survived was the hard drives. The weird thing is that my UPS and power supply are supposed to safeguard against power surges. I was not running cheap components I Was running a $200 UPS and a Coolermaster power supply. Would the manufacturers cover the damage to the components since their safeguards failed? I really need some help it was an expensive system.

Hello guys I tried to launch Fortnite and PUBG it loads for like few minutes then my pc restarts and I get an error that says Power surge has ben detected by Asus anti surge. Now I have 300w psu. How much watts do I need for my build: i5 2500 3.3ghz RX 560 4GB RAM 4gb + 2gb ddr3 1333mhz

Ah yes, the infamous Asus power surge protection. Got a little story and a problem with it. I'll try to keep it short as I can. It all started about a year and a half ago. You can read the full story here: http://redd.it/7y0361 , but tl;dr is my pc was shutting down after 5-20 min of heavy load. I disassembled it and assembled it again and it started working flawlessly again. Around last new year's eve, the problem happened again. I just disconnected and then reconnected the cables from all components, except for the PSU and it got "fixed" again. Yesterday, it happened again. I was playing Witcher 3 for about 45 min and it just turned off and the goddamn power surge message appeared. Safe to say, I've had enough of this. I would assume it is the PSU, but I don't want to spend my money on the PSU when it could be the motherboard that's faulty or something else. I know that Asus anti-surge is garbage, but I don't want to turn it off until I'm sure that every component in my pc works like it should. Anyways, really need your help with this one. I will provide as much information as I can. Thanks in advance. Also, I'm running CPU at 4.6GHz@1.35V and GPU at 2114MHz@1.093V.

My PSU is good confirmed I just found out if start certain files like any media files (.mkv,.mp4) with vlc, and broforce game exe then just pc shuts down and i get power surge message. I did stress test on cpu (i5-6500) for 26 minutes using prime95 program, cpu usage was 100% max temp reached was 70-80 degree celsius and didn't get any power surge at all. For using chrome (i am typing this problem using pc chrome now) and internet download manager i don't get power surges. Any solution i will be much appreciated.

So basically, whenever I plug in my microphone, it doesn't turn on and says "Power surge on the USB port. Unknown USB Device needs more power than the port can supply". This is the first time it has happened but I have had the mic for months. If you need to know, it is a Blue Yeti Mic, here's the link to it on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Yeti-USB-Microphone-Blackout/dp/B00N1YPXW2/ref=sr_1_3?gclid=Cj0KCQjwzunmBRDsARIsAGrt4mtjEfigSRY9I3NUlHNW959Kd_s_5bfDiyYgpxjd5vxa1uZz9aqM73caAg1kEALw_wcB&hvadid=177218034405&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9014901&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=17775906225930123621&hvtargid=kwd-14664349409&hydadcr=18911_9698412&keywords=blue+yeti+microphone&qid=1557865395&s=gateway&sr=8-3

My system was fully functioning for nearly a year until about two weeks ago. There was a pretty heavy thunderstorm with a lightning strike within a few dozen yards (or meters) of my house. Since then, my system will not boot. I assumed that the storm could have damaged my power supply, and have since tried a brand new PSU to no avail. I have tried stripping the system down to CPU, 1 DIMM and NO drives to see if there were any other hardware issues. I have also tried resetting the CMOS settings by removing power and then removing the MB battery. I have yet to accomplish anything. The only indicator I have is the blinking standby "PWR_LED" on the motherboard that was solid on when the system was functioning. It blinks on about every 3 seconds. I cannot find anything in the MB manual about what this may indicate. Also wondering what component is most likely to fail during a power surge after the PSU. Thanks in advance for any insight! Parts listed below: Intel i5-8600K @ 4.0 GHz Asus ROG STRIX Z370-F Gaming G.Skill Trident Z (4x8 GB) DDR4-3200 Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB A few BarraCuda Drives Sapphire RX 590 NITRO+ SeaSonic FOCUS Plus Gold 650 W (now 750 W)

Hello, thinking of getting a UPS to protect my PC, just wondered will my PC actually be protected. If so, what problems will I have and what could I do to stop them. Thank you

My fan, pc and monitor are connected to a surge protector. Whenever I turn on the fan, the monitor would black out for 2 seconds before turning back on (I normally turn on the fan in the middle of my gaming session). I read up on this issue and it seems that a change in voltage caused my monitor to blackout, and doing this could actually damage my pc and monitor. The scariest thing for me is that I have probably been doing this for about 6 months, at least once a week! Would I notice the damages caused to my stuff?

Hi, i know there are already threads about this but i can't find a solution for my problem. This is my first time posting on a forum so sorry if i make a mistake somewhere. Here are my system specs: CPU: i5 4690k GPU: Radeon R9 280x RAM: 8GB Hyper-x Motherboard: ASUS z97m - PLUS PSU: Cooler Master 600W Win 10 Latest Radeon Drivers 18.9.3 I had this problem over 3 months now. I use this system for gaming mostly but for over 1 year i don't have much time to play games i started gaming again and i have this problem. In a variety of games like : Ring of Elysium The Evil Within 2 and other games But i played Minecraft for hours and hours and the pc isn't stopping. When i played The Evil Within 2 the pc crashed always then I pulled out my video card and played with integrated video for hours (with a lot of lag) but the pc didn't crash When The evil within 2 was released i played it with same specs without problem. I read a lot of posts about this and a lot of people told me that the PSU can't give enough power to the video card or the ASUS Surge Protection is to sensitive and i should turn it off but i am scared to do it. And when i turn the PC back on i see a message something like : Default Radeon Wattman settings have crashed and been restored So i know here are a lot of people who can help me with my problem. Thank you Ps: I don't have another PSU to test

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So I was just on my desktop playing some games and then there was a storm and a temporary power outage in my house, when the power came back my tower would not boot. I don't know if something is wrong with power supply or motherboard. Can anybody help me?

Hey, so my mouse stopped working. After couple of minutes so did my keybord and internet. I tried to restart the PC couple of times, it didn't fix anything, but now my PC started to restart itself after 1-5minutes of turning it on. I went to computer repair shop, they said my power supply was messed up and it had to be changed. They changed the power supply, now everything was working except I was getting this "USB device has exceeded the power limits of its hub port" error upon pluging my mouse in, after I get that error my mouse turns off. I tried the same mouse on my brother's PC and it seems to work without any errors. So is there a way to fix this ?Or the only thing is to change my mouse ? My mouse is Razer Deathadder Chroma if that changes anything. Thanks for any help.

AMD 9590fx Gigabyte ga-990fxa-ud3 r5 1050 ti 850 watt psu 1 500gb ssd Will post and sit in bios indefinitely, as soon as I type in my windows key to install windows it shuts down and powers itself back up I just took this psu out of my 2700x system for my sister cause I have a new psu for that build coming tomorrow so the psu should be ok but it is makeing a new whining noise that I've never noticed. Bios reports 50c for an hour so it could be cooling issues?

Hello! I live in an area where there are severe thunderstorms daily and up until about a month ago, I assumed that the PC was safe by plugging it into a surge protector. I was proven wrong in the worst way possible when lightning struck near my house frying the PC. Since then I've been simply unplugging my new computer anytime it starts to thunder to avoid killing this one too. The problem is that I work from home and 80% of what I do is done on my PC, therefore, I just can't afford to unplug my computer during the five to six hour daily storms. I've been reading about an uninterrupted power supply and it sounds like one could fix my problem but I have a couple questions that I hope some of you can answer because I'm having trouble finding the information online. My understanding is that the UPS works like a normal power strip but it has a battery it charges while it's plugged into the outlet, my intention is to unplug the UPS and use just the battery while the storms happen. What I don't know is how long these batteries last and if I need a specific one for my issues. I'm using a 650W PSU on the PC and will need to run at least one monitor + the PC for a minimum of three hours. If anyone could point me in the direction of a UPS that fits these needs I would really appreciate it. I don't have any budget in mind as it is critical I begin working again. Thank you for your help!