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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?

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Well, CX/CXM PSU's are known not to be the best whenever they are in high output/usage. Try downing the details to try and bring power down.

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First off, Asus anti-surge gets triggered like a Tumblr regular. I don't know why it's so finicky. 

 

Second, I think you still have a warranty on the CX. See if Corsair will send you a new unit.

 

Third, maybe get a new PSU if you don't want to deal with that hassle. An EVGA GQ or B2 should be fine, they're both fairly cheap too.

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9 minutes ago, SEEK said:

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?

auto restart disabled for witcher 3.JPG

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Just now, Abdul201588 said:

Which CXM is it? Green one or grey? Grey one is the better one.

Definitely a green considering it's from 2 years ago xD

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Just now, Abdul201588 said:

Which CXM is it? Green one or grey? Grey one is the better one.

It's Green.

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Just now, SEEK said:

It's Green.

If you're lucky, you can get an RMA from Corsair and get shipped a Grey unit, they're overall better

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Mathresolvermajig: Intel Xeon E3 1240 (Sandy Bridge i7 equivalent)

Chillinmachine: Noctua NH-C14S
Framepainting-inator: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2 Hybrid

Attachcorethingy: Gigabyte H61M-S2V-B3

Infoholdstick: Corsair 2x4GB DDR3 1333

Computerarmor: Silverstone RL06 "Lookalike"

Rememberdoogle: 1TB HDD + 120GB TR150 + 240 SSD Plus + 1TB MX500

AdditionalPylons: Phanteks AMP! 550W (based on Seasonic GX-550)

Letterpad: Rosewill Apollo 9100 (Cherry MX Red)

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I believe I found the solution to this problem. My PC was plugged into a plug socket board which connected to another surge protected socket board. I had a total of 10 plugs in.

I removed the standard plug socket board. Now I have just 1 surge protected socket board which has a total of 4 plugs (PC, Monitor, Speakers, Router). Prior to doing this, I encountered crashes when running the Heaven benchmark software with tessellation on extreme. I ran the benchmark twice after changing out the socket board, and it ran without any crashes.

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20 hours ago, SEEK said:

I believe I found the solution to this problem. My PC was plugged into a plug socket board which connected to another surge protected socket board. I had a total of 10 plugs in.

I removed the standard plug socket board. Now I have just 1 surge protected socket board which has a total of 4 plugs (PC, Monitor, Speakers, Router). Prior to doing this, I encountered crashes when running the Heaven benchmark software with tessellation on extreme. I ran the benchmark twice after changing out the socket board, and it ran without any crashes.

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Sadly this is not the issue. The problem is still occurring. Think I'm going to upgrade to the EVGA SuperNova P2 850W

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