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Hello, my surge protector fulfilled it's purpose very well but during the surge (which took out a block), there was a meter high shower of sparks out of it. It appears to be working fine, aside from clicking noise (from relays) upon plugging in again that have since ceased. Here is the question, should I replace it ASAP? I attached a datasheet for it. 2906628.pdf

So... I need a UPS for work, and sometimes I game then power goes out, I just want a ups that has enough time for me to save my work or save then quit my game, and do a proper shutdown. appreciated the help! Ryzen 5 2600 4x4gb 2400mhz ram GTX 1660 super 850watts powersupply 6 1000rpm 120mm chasis fan 1600x900 19inches monitor 1 gaming keyboard 1 gaming mouse

Greetings Community, I have been trying to decide between several UPS power supplies around 1000 watts. The goal was about $150, but prices seem to have gone up so keeping it about $200 or under is the price I have to hit. I had someone tell me that they prefer APC over cyber-power due to easier and usually cheaper battery replacements - so I would like to hear your opinion on that statement. Note that I would also like this UPS system to act as a decent surge protector. 1: This is a UPS system I have had very good experiences with - CyberPower CP1350PFCLCD - https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00429N19M/ 2: A UPS system from APC that potentially looks good - APC PRO BN1500M2 - https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1383478-REG/apc_bn1500m2_back_ups_pro_bn.html 3: A cheaper, also decent looking UPS system from APC that I could maybe save a buck with? - APC Pro BX1500M - https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1322674-REG/apc_back_ups_pro_bx1500m.html If you have any other suggestions for a UPS systems around this price point, please let me know which one and why!

Hey all, Problem is as described in title It started a short while ago seemingly out of nowhere. Basically when playing certain games (bannerlord, squad, holdfast and plenty of others in my library) my case fans will spike to 100% for short periods, often less than 5 seconds but up to 10 at times. I attempted to implement some fan smoothing settings both in my BIOS and with ARGUS as well as setting the fans to software controlled, reading temps from the cpu as suggested in this LTT thread but to no avail, these spikes continue to occur and continue to be the bane of my quiet loving existence. specs are as follows: Asus TUF x570 motherboard Gigabyte rtx 2070 super AMD Ryzen 3900X 16 gigs of corsair dominator ddr4 ram Boot drive is a Samsung 970 evo plus 1 TB nvme drive Game install drive is a 2 TB Seagate barracuda HDD CPU cooler is a coolermaster ml360r 360 mm rad with the 3 stock fans. these also function as the intake fans Exhaust fans are 1 Arctic f12 120 mm fan on the back and 2 Be quiet! pure wings 2 140mm fans on top. Thermal paste is Noctua NT-H1 No clue whats going on so i really hope you guys can help me. PS The intake fans on the rad are hooked up to an rbg controller from coolermaster if that matters.

My PC has twice now, shutdown then about 10 seconds later shows the American Megatrends bios with a warning about surge protection. Both of these times I was playing Rocket League and it just cut out. I'm not sure if it is the power supply causing issues or if it is the motherboard. Here is a link to my build - https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/zs4mQV - if that helps

Hi all, I recently plugged a USB device into my pc and it caused a power surge shutting down all the ports after. Since then I have restarted my pc and it works well now(although it did crash to shutdown while i was playing a game). my question is will there be any damages to any parts? I want to make sure that a component won't fail on me Thanks in advance !

I have recently upgraded into i7 and changed mobo to asus from gigabyte which i had on my fx 4300 before , for the past 2-3 week , when on gaming my pc restarts and says " ASUS Anti Surge " was triggered etc and my pc ended up on on/off loop , this is happening frequently these days always shows that anti surge triggered thing on start , after10mins or so pc comes back to normal state .I think this is cause of the asus anti surge , should I disable it from the bios? Is it safe to disable it ? Does my PSU have this surge protection? I am using my pc on UPS also., Please help me out here .

So a pc got damaged while a power surge and I replaced a power supply since it wasnt turning on and when I did it said something like no bootable hard drive or something. It was a sata hard drive but a older one. I think the pc had like windows Xp or something. Should I replace the drive? Would that help?

Hello, I am having a big issue with my build which i have had for about 6 months now. Built it myself with the help of Linus Youtube videos. Thanks ! Playing GTA Online i notice that my FPS started to get choppy and would drop. I checked my computer temps using Speccy and realised that my motherboard and my GPU were well beyond their working temperature( 85C ) under load. I also noticed that they both fluctuate drastically back and forth from 31C to 85C in a matter of half a second.They usually run in the 31C. I did have my computer overclocked by someone who knows what they are doing . But nothing crazy. My pc is cooled by 7 fans and the cpu by a Liquid Cooler Hydro Series v2. For The thermal paste i used what came with the CPU cooler from factory Should also point out that there was a power outage/surge 2 days ago. I DO NOT HAVE A SURGE PROTECTOR. Yes , I know facepalm hard. I'm pretty new to the Dominant race PCs but i am a big gaming aficionado. Please help or advise thanks! My specs: Gtx 1070 Asus Z170-A motherboard Intel Core i7 6700K EVGA SuperNOVA 1000W power supply ( bit over kill ) Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler Corsair dominator platinum series 32gb DDR4

Recently my PC has been giving me this error message upon powering up. The PC also occasionally freezes while I am playing Titanfall 2, but no other games. I am pretty sure my 550w PSU is adequate for my computer, but maybe I'm wrong. Any help/advice is appreciated! (the photo attached is not from my PC) Since the problems occur while playing TF2, would turning down the video settings help? Part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/G7YtLD

So I'm wanting to run Ethernet to both my desktop and my switch. Problem is my room is nowhere near the router in our house so I need to do it through the power line. It seems easy enough but I'm just worried about surges and what they could do to my either my computer or what it could do to my switch. The only options I've seen so far would mean losing some connection speed and also buying two extra surge protectors per cable. I was wondering if there are any solutions to this or if I should even be worrying about surges with Ethernet through power line. Any input is much appreciated (side note I intend to use a TP-Link power line adapter for the connection.)

So, I was just minding my own business in a Discord call, then all of a sudden I heard the notification sound Windows 10 makes when you unplug a USB device. This happened several times. I mean, 10 times. I noticed there was an error message on the bottom right corner of my screen (I can't get a hold of the exact notification, as it doesn't show up in my recent notifications). The notification read, "USB Power Surge from Unknown USB Device." I noticed my mouse and keyboard didn't work, and they were plugged into a USB hub. I then thought, "Well, it must be the USB hub causing the problem." I unplugged the USB hub, and managed around my other USB devices (Logitech G933 USB Connector, Zowie Mouse, Keyboard, Bluetooth Adapter, and Xbox One Controller Adapter). Unfortunately, after ditching the USB hub the problem is still occurring and I have no idea what is causing it. I have to plug my mouse and keyboard in the front two USB ports, as the USB ports on the rear are none-responsive. I thought it could be a motherboard problem, but before I try anything that requires me opening the computer - I'd like to hear suggestions and if someone has had the same issue I am having. I'd like to avoid spending money at all. Of course, if I have to I will. I need this computer for school work so fixing this as soon as possible would be preferred. Thanks!

So at some point the power strip that I had was failing so as a temporary fix I had plugged my PC into the wall socket directly and like a dummy, I forgot to actually plug it back into the new strip I had bought. Several months later we have had a power surge but I thought nothing of it. My PC hasn't been turned on in a couple weeks and of course I thought it was safely plugged into the power strip. Sadly, I was wrong. When I finally went to turn on my PC, nothing happened. I checked all the connections and made sure to use an outlet I knew was working and yet nothing. So on a hunch I decided to buy a new power supply and while I was at it I replaced the CMOS battery. The LED indicator light on my motherboard finally came to life and I went to power on my PC aaand... nothing... sort of. Everything will kick in for half a second like it wants to start up but then ultimately nothing happens. Everything just seems to shut down. I've checked and rechecked every connector there is and made sure the power supply really was working by quickly plugging it into a regular desktop PC and it powered it up no problem. I also know it's not a wattage issue because it's the same wattage as the power supply I had previously. I checked to make sure the RAM sticks were functioning and even tried it with a stick that I knew was still functional and nothing. Below are the specifications of my build and I'll also include an image or two to see if anyone can spot something physically (Maybe a missed connector or something) CPU: i7-4770K (Using standard Intel provided CPU fan/heat sink) Mobo: ASUS Sabertooth Z87 RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2400mhz 16GB (Single Channel) GPU: EVGA Geforce 970 PSU: Corsair 750w (Partially modular) If anyone has any ideas, please help. This PC means more to me than most might think. This was my belated graduation present from my Dad from 2011 and since he had passed away I told myself I would try to keep this machine running for as long as I can and I really don't want to see it go because of something as stupid as me forgetting to plug it back into a surge protector.

Hi, I want to buy this https://www.tripplite.com/isobar-4-outlet-surge-protector-6-ft-cord-3300-joules-diagnostic-leds~ISOBAR4ULTRA My PC has an 850 watt psu, and will be the only thing plugged into this surge protector for a while. The surge protector has 4 outlets. My question is if in the meantime, having only one device plugged in is bad?

Hi! My house is not grounded, just like almost all of the houses where I live. So all my outlets are just two prong outlets. My current setup includes an extension cord that claims to have surge protection plugged directly into the wall outlet (Philippines 220V 60Hz), and plugged into it are the system unit (550W PSU), monitor, and 2.1 speakers, sometimes I also plug other things into it like stand fans and phone chargers. What are the best options that I can do immediately to improve my and my components' safety? I will have the house properly grounded in the future but it might take some time. I was planning on buying a good quality surge protector to replace my extension cord, I know the surge protection won't really work on a two prong outlet but I thought that at least the materials used inside would be better. However, I read that using it on a two prong outlet would actually cause more harm than good. I also thought of buying a UPS, but I read that it might actually be bad for the PSU if they're not "compatible", also, I don't really need its main functionality, I only want to improve overall safety. Just wanna ask for advice and suggestions, thanks!

So im looking for surge protected power strip or a box with normal rating of joules because all i could find is small ratings like 500 or 1000 and its cheap chinese garbage, i live in UK and, my house is build in 1970's so wiring is still good but kinda old, we replaced old fuse box with new switch box and electrician said wiring is still good, as replacing it is too expensive at the moment, so we bought this house from some woman as she got it from her granny, and i bought cheap chinese surge protected power strip for my pc, i wanted to get UPS but this area didn't had brown out for the past one year, so UPS is not exactly needed for me, also cyberpower sinewave pfc UPS'es have joule rating around 450 which is kinda small and i dont know how much true joule rating my cheap power strip has, so i started looking in to some serious power strips or boxes, and i see in US there is good company called tripp lite but here in UK i only can find stationary surge protected switch boxes which company arrives and installs for your nice sum of cash or cheap chinese surge protected power strips like belkin, master plug or others which claim 1700 joule rating but in reality is pure BS.... so does anybody know of some good company surge protected power strip for europe market, could even be around 50-70usd, since US voltage is 120v and Europe uses 220-240v

So I'm installing a media panel in my house and was debating on how to handle the surge. Theres going to be a UPS in this media panel so my question is can I use the built in surge on the UPS? I've heard some people say built in surge is useless and to have dedicated surge protection. Help

Hello! Just 2 months ago graduated from Information Technology High School and I was oftenly troubleshooting someone's else pc. But last few days I find myself in worry with my own PC. I would appreciate an answer or opinion from someone else, as I am not so sure about my decision in solving this problem and I don't want to destroy any of my components. Problems occured - 11 days ago I traveled and wasn't home for 8 days. My pc was turned on twice during that by my brother at home (used remote desktop and download some data). But there was problem when he wanted to turn on my pc second time. He had to press the power on button like 10 times before it finally boots up. But it worked fine afterwards. I've always had a problem with power on button and had to press 1-3 times for pc to boot up (but never more than 3 times). I thought that the contacts on top of my case didn't fit properly and it was normal (contacts inside case are fine). - When I arrived home, I turned on my PC. I had to press power on button like 10 times. Finally, pc turned ON for a sec and then immediately turned OFF and then ON again. Now it showed multiple errors in POST. 1. Power supply surges detected during the previous power on. 2. Asus Anti-Surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply unit! 3. CPU Over Voltage Error! Problems in BIOS +12V was on 24.480V +5V was on 10.200V +3.3V was on 4.080V and CPU Temperature is -300°C Nothing changed next day, even after 2 hours of pc being turned on. Situation before - 5 weeks ago updated MB BIOS to newest (version 2203) from official Asus site (everything went well) - 4 weeks ago bought Samsung 970 EVO 250GB NVMe drive and installed official Windows 10 N Education from school license (everything went well) - 4 weeks ago bought MS office and Kaspersky Internet Security Antivirus from ebay (everything downloaded from official sites and license codes were working) - Since that, my PC was used only for light tasks (youtube, coding, web development - yarn, git,...) no games or benchmarks or anything heavy What I have tried - Took out GPU - Took out RAM so only 1 remained - Unplugged both SATA from all 3 drives (was worried about destruction) - Changing CMOS battery - Switching between ECO and NORMAL state on PSU (and tried to wait, hold 30sec power on while PSU was unplugged) - Turn on pc with another power on motherboard pins from another pc - Turn on pc with another power cable - Turn on pc in another electrical circuit - Checked for unscrewed screws and anything that could lead to surge (but nothing founded) - Cleaned pc and especially PSU from dust (even though I have cleaned it 4 weeks ago) with compressed air - Unplugged and plugged all MB cables again (everything fits good) - Unplugged and plugged all PSU cables again (everything fits good) - I even took out PSU, unplugged it completely from PC, connected PS_ON# with ground pin, and measured Voltage of each output of 24 pin power cable. As a load for PSU I used 2 fans. I had some inaccurate and old measuring digital multimeter but was able to see that 3.3V was 4V, 5V was 5V and 12V was 11V. But it was nothing near what BIOS was showing up! What I can't / didn't do - I can't try another PSU or MB (I don't have any extra that would suit my PC) - I haven't load Windows or any bootable device as I was scared of drives being destroyed - I can't return MB as the warranty expired My conclusion - It looks like PSU is fine, even thought I haven't tested Voltage under heavier load - MB may went crazy from unknown reason (only software side) but is actualy working - or MB is not working properly from unknown reason Additional info - PSU is whole time plugged into surge protector socket - I have never overclocked anything - All overclocking and Voltage is set to auto in BIOS What I would like to do - Based on some forums and answers, I would turn off Asus protection (some people said it is garbage) and let pc load and test it with some benchmarks and see if everything works fine. (But it still won't solve my CPU temperature shown in BIOS?) - Or downgrade BIOS and see if anything is going to change PC config Case: NZXT H440 PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 Power Supply 750W MB: ASUS Z97-PRO GAMER GAMING CPU: Intel Core i7-4770k CPU cooler: Scythe SCMGD-1000 Mugen MAX RAM: Crucial 4GB DDR3 1600MHz CL8 Ballistix Tactical LP & Kingmax flff65f-c8kl9 4GB DDR3 1333MHz (I am aware of bottleneck & they are not in dual line) GPU: Asus R9280X-DC2T-3GD5 Drives: 1. Western Digital WD20EARX 2TB Green Edition (data - photos, videos, games,...) 2. Samsung SSD 850 EVO - 120GB, Basic (empty for now) 3. Samsung 970 EVO 250GB NVMe (for Windows and apps) Thermal Compound: Arctic Cooling MX-2 Sorry for long post, I've tried to put as much info as I could. What are your thoughts? Thanks in advance!

Apologies this will be long winded, 2 pcs both with dead boards 90%+ certain First pc (life line to everything), cpu: i5 3750 (?) motherboard: asus p8z77 premium ram: 16gb (4xdimm) 1600 corsair psu: (was bequiet modular 1000w - fried) now evga 750w modular gpu: amd radeon 7850 2gb x 2 (crossfire) System was custom built by myself roughly 7 years ago, has run perfectly being on mostly 24/7. Last week I came back to it after 10 minutes to find no display, case led showed power but there was a very obvious electrical buzzing from case, most likely psu. I initially tried a reset, same thing, tried once more then powered off. Left it awhile, came back tried to power on, nothing at all, no power, no fans, no beeps, no lefds, absolutely nothing. Immediate thoughts are dead psu. Second time I tried to power it flipped the circuit breaker immediately. There was no electrical burning smell or obvious signs of damage other than the electrical buzzing which ceased prior as above. Everything was connected to a surge protector which had no obvious damage and was still powering other devices without issue. Ordered new psu which arrived few days later. Inspected inside case abit closer and could see no obvious signs of damage, not to psu or board, no blown capacitors etc.. Removed old psu, tested with paper clip method, no response. Tested new psu prior to installing, fan powered on fine. Installed new psu, still nothing, absolutely nothing. Removed ine component at a time retesting each time, nothing all the way down to just psu and board. So dead board? It occurred to me afterwards I hadnt actually even heard the new psu fan come on despite testing prior. Removed new psu, retested, nothing.. so now im thinking has this coincidentally died or suffered damage due to faulty board also? Retested old psu (on its own) it blew straight away so fairly adamant that was initial or atleast part of problem. So now im at a slight loss as i havent delved into pc hardware building or repairs since marriage/kids. Assumed new psu wasnt actually dead and maybe wasnt firing because it needed something extra to get it going. Reinstalled to board and fans, still nothing. Reset cmos, nothing, hard reset cmos, nothing, replaced cmos battery, nothing. Assuming board is totally dead along with old psu, new psu still question mark. At this point I dont have the resources to do any further testing. Purchased a cheap compatible system, primrarily to get me up and running, I was considering doing a full in restore of old to new but had a few worries especially as to source(s) Of damage and not wanting to blow another system. Also heavily concerned with data loss as I stupidly did not have a full backup but kept private file backup in a HDD attached to same sytem (i know stupid but life hasnt thrown me many bones lately to contend with it appropriately. New system had a gigabyte z77 board, so i tested old system ram, gpus and ssd/hdd All appeared to be fine except one of the gpu which was emitting a static display when connected (hdmi) havent tried dvi but second test was black screen. Not the end of the world but something too look into later. Now my big issue is with ssd(s). I had 4 plus an msata in old system, one was OS samsung 850 256gb which is my only data concern. 2 x samsung 850 in raid 0 (?) which was just software games (not too worried). Wont go into too much detail and will probably do separate post in appropriate forum but basically concern, after alot of research is how to get old system back up amd running due to constraints with moving ssds into new system. From what Incan gather my best bet is replacing dead motherboard with the same one or similar to bypass driver concerns and hope it just picks up off where it left assuming theres no deeper damage to ssd. Ssds are detected in new system but deemed unallocated, i dont want to initialise or do anything that could cause damage or wipe data. Ok, if you got his far, thanks, ive been pulling my hair out and really losing it so far. So my queries; 1) What else could I do to establish what the overall damage to old system is? Especialy to the board, its bugging me as theres no obvious signs of damage. Would it be worth buying/replacing bios chip? Is it worth taking the board itself. To someone to see if it can be repaired? Whilst the obvious answer is probably no, my next dofficulty is replacing this board. Its damn near impossible to find and comes with a ridiculous cost and only overseas. 2) Replacing the board with similar? In view of attemtping to revive existing system this appears to be my next best move? How similar do boards have to be for there to be a decent chance of this working assuming the ssd / os isnt buggered? Theres plenty of variations of asus p8z77 im just unsure on what my limitations would be and how varied, if at all bios and drivers would be. 3) would any old z77 socket 1155 board carry just the same chance? I understand that i could sily pre-load board drivers during resetup but my concern and lack of knowledge around ssd issues prevents me going forward here. Ultimately what is my best option of reviving my system? i will leave other pc for now as this isnoverwhelming, thank you Edit: 4) i havent tested old cpu in new system, if cpu was faulty could this cause damage to new system (hence why i havent tried)?

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.

Im planning my first build so I have to ask, is surge protector needed? I plan on using this power supply: Corsair TX650M (http://www.corsair.com/en-eu/tx-m-series-tx650m-650-watt-80-plus-gold-certified-psu-na) and the page says one of the features is: "Over-voltage protection, under-voltage protection, short circuit protection, over power protection, and over temperature protection provide maximum safety to your critical system components." So the power supply should protect the rest of the PC?

Hi. Good day. I have 15 units of desktop computers and 1 server, switch, router, ap, firewall etc. They are operating simultaneously almost 24 hours every day. I've heard that lightning strikes whether it is not direct can induce surge and damage computers including network peripherals. All of the units have their own UPS. How can I protect my computers from surge coming from the DSL or ethernet? Is it possible for electrical surge to travel through ethernet cables and fry my nic and motherboard? Do i really need this kind of protection? Please help me with this. Thank you very much.

So the last couple of months my Ethernet port was not working/lighting up. (I assumed it got surged from a storm) Last night, I went to unplug my lamp but unplugged my PC while it was still on. This morning, I booted my PC to find that the port is completely fine. Can someone explain what on Earth happened?

Hey! So I have an evga 500+ and I was playing a game when it shut down randomly I booted it back up and my mobo reported a psu surge. I don't know how it happened, I think it might've been cause when I was playing the game I paused for a sec to tighten a thumb screw that I needed to tighten but was too lazy to do it until then, I'm thinking it was static from my clothes or something else, I was able to boot windows OK and it seemed OK after that. Any ideas?

I have a CXM750 PSU in my rig for the past 2 years with no problems. Yesterday I installed the MSI GTX 970 GPU (stock settings). It tends to run most games very well. However in The Witcher 3 I experience crashes. Event viewer stated that the source of the critical error was Kernal-power. I could not find more meaningful information, so I disabled automatic restart on system failure. The game ran flawlessly for approx 1 hour, and then it crashes again. This time I received an error message. "Power supply surges detected during the previous power on. ASUS Anti-Surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power". What should I do to run The Witcher 3 without getting crashes?