z170-e BIOS Setup

[PTSDmorty]

Hi everyone, 

 

So i built a new gaming rig (my first one) this past weekend. Everything was running fine till I went to turn it on the next day and was greeted to this message "Power supply surges detected during the previous power on. ASUS anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply." So i researched online and saw that this is commonly associated to the faulty PSU. I went to the store, bought a new PSU, installed it and still got the same error. Also checked that all my cabling was secure. 

 

This board came with old BIOS firmware that I updated to run the latest i7 7700k from intel. I've never really worked in bios and I'm thinking i might need to tweak settings to resolve this issue. Other than turning on XMP, are there any other setting i should adjust in my BIOS? I don't plan on overclocking. 

 

SIDE NOTE: My stock i7 7700k is running at 1.2v. Is that normal?

 

SIDE NOTE 2: Most people who get this error message get sudden reboots in the middle of running games or other CPU demanding tasks, not me. 

[Zando_]

What PSU did you have before, and what did you replace it with? And I gotta do a bunch of spreadsheets, so I'll call in @STRMfrmXMN.

[PTSDmorty]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

What PSU did you have before, and what did you replace it with? And I gotta do a bunch of spreadsheets, so I'll call in @STRMfrmXMN.

I had the EVGA 850 G2 and bought a EVGA 750 G2 to try and resolve the PSU issue

[STRMfrmXMN]

9 minutes ago, PTSDmorty said:

Hi everyone, 

 

So i built a new gaming rig (my first one) this past weekend. Everything was running fine till I went to turn it on the next day and was greeted to this message "Power supply surges detected during the previous power on. ASUS anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply." So i researched online and saw that this is commonly associated to the faulty PSU. I went to the store, bought a new PSU, installed it and still got the same error. Also checked that all my cabling was secure. 

 

This board came with old BIOS firmware that I updated to run the latest i7 7700k from intel. I've never really worked in bios and I'm thinking i might need to tweak settings to resolve this issue. Other than turning on XMP, are there any other setting i should adjust in my BIOS? I don't plan on overclocking. 

 

SIDE NOTE: My stock i7 7700k is running at 1.2v. Is that normal?

 

SIDE NOTE 2: Most people who get this error message get sudden reboots in the middle of running games or other CPU demanding tasks, not me. 

The solution is to turn off the impossibly bad Asus Anti-Surge here.

[PTSDmorty]

2 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

The solution is to turn off the impossibly bad Asus Anti-Surge here.

I actually did until i could find a solution. What do you think about my stock i7 7700K running at 1.2v? is that normal? And should i change and BIOS settings or just "load optimzed presets" with XMP enabled. 

[STRMfrmXMN]

2 minutes ago, PTSDmorty said:

I actually did until i could find a solution. What do you think about my stock i7 7700K running at 1.2v? is that normal? And should i change and BIOS settings or just "load optimzed presets" with XMP enabled. 

1.2V for a 7700K is very normal, yes.

 

Leave the voltage at stock if you're not overclocking and leave XMP enabled.

[PTSDmorty]

6 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

1.2V for a 7700K is very normal, yes.

 

Leave the voltage at stock if you're not overclocking and leave XMP enabled.

got it got it... Disabling that Asus software is a solution i kept seeing pop-up. I just wanted to see if anyone else had any other solutions i could give a shot. paranoid... lol