Eerie lights.

[Nanobytez]

So... I was playing League of Legends and my lights started to flicker in my room. My monitor restarted itself but I could still hear, it looked like some lights may have flickered inside my case, not sure. So I just turned it off via holding the button. There was no smoke or anything and the PC works fine as I type. I have had this happen once before with a Thermaltake TR2 RX 850 Watt. WAY worse with the TT PSU though.

 

Quick specs.

 

ASUS Sabertooth FX 990 r2.0

Corsair CX 600

Sapphire R9 270x

AMD FX 8320 Eight Core

G.Skill 3x4GB PC3-12800 (My Hyper Evo 212 covers up the first DIMM. Not sure how to orient it. )

Cooler Master cosmos S

 

 

If I missed something lemme know. Is there a SAFE reliable way to test this without leaving it unattended? Or something that could log voltages without me needing to hawk eye over them as I've no idea what is safe and isn't. I'd rather not shell out more for a PSU as this one is less than a year old.

[HaraldR]

If your room lights flicker,PC reset means power to pc has been interrupted. It is more likely to be the reaching the power circuits maximum rating (Overload).  You will have to see what things are sharing same power circuit eg. heaters,clothes dryers kettles etc

[Nanobytez]

My room was wired on it's own entirely if that helps. The only things plugged in are my monitor, my PC, and a USB charge I use to power my iPod to charge it. All of this is on one Surge protector. I don't think that's too much?

[HaraldR]

So I can assume you have your own Fuse/Circuit breaker at Switchboard (which is very rare)

[Nanobytez]

I'm not too experienced in that. But I was informed that my room when it was remodled had it's own circuit. Maybe I processed that wrong but no idea.

 

EDIT: So last night apparently the whole city received spikes in power so it wasn't just me. Good to know.

[miagisan]

brownout. Happens to me in the summertime. the split second of power fluctuation makes my computer shut off. Its fairly normal in the summer for us here in NY, especially hot days (since everyone is cranking their AC)....but it could have been anything which causes a slight drop in power continuance to your house (car accident on an electric pole, transformer hiccup, etc). May not affect all appliances as they have their own capacitors which can hold a certain charge with a certain amount of variance.

[Arc_Jester]

Good thing you had a surge protector or you might have lost your PC.

[Comessy]

Burn it with fire its possessed