Yes, it could. Power strips are notorious for problems. Whenever possible it is HIGHLY recommended that you either plug the PSU directly into the wall outlet OR into a high quality UPS battery backup system. It is NEVER a good idea to use a power strip unless it is a high quality model, and high quality models are not going to be found at your local retailers or in the early results of any online searches.
Quality power strips are expensive, and can be found at industrial electronics supply houses or in some cases at musical instrument and equipment suppliers. Guitar center and Musicians friend likely carry SOME, but they also are likely to carry a good amount of garbage too. Good ones are generally those made by APC (APC has both cheap and quality products, so be VERY inquisitive and look at PROFESSIONAL reviews of any APC product you are looking to buy), Tripp-Lite, Leviton, Eaton, Leviton, General Electric, Polyphaser, Ditek, Siemens, ABB, Square D, Intermatic, Cutler-Hammer (Eaton), and Syscom, these are the brands you can trust to have high quality internal electronics if you MUST use a power strip. Do not however use a power strip thinking that it offers significant protection, because even the best of them does not, not really. Whole house protection is the only real protection from surges.
Monster and Belkin, and a few others that are commonly used, almost unilaterally use the same protections in their 45 dollar surge protector strips as what you would find in an 8 dollar Amazon or Walmart branded model. And if you ever take one of these, or any cheap box store, dollar store (Even worse than these others usually BUT occasionally about the same) or Harbor Freight power strip apart you are likely to find frayed wires, poorly soldered connections with blobs of solder nearly touching crucial and potential short circuit points, super low quality MOVs, and a ton of other indicators that no real integrity was involved in the design or manufacturer of these units.
Another factor to keep in mind is that even with some of these high quality units, any protection that MIGHT be afforded, is usually the end of that product after one shot. This, directly from the Tripp-Lite manual for the #1 selling surge protection power strip in the world.
All models feature an internal protection that will disconnect the surge-protective component at the end of its useful life but will maintain power to the load now unprotected.
I believe many models from APC and a couple of the others I listed have now incorporated designs that permanently disengage any ability of the device to deliver power once a surge or short of significant enough caliber to incur the protection has occured. That basically means once there has been a surge or short, throw the device away. Even for high end models. Only whole house protection and properly earthed circuits offer any true protection from a serious surge or direct strike from lightning somewhere close enough to affect your segment of the grid.
And whatever you do, don't EVER buy any kind of extension cord, power strip or other electronic device with slip rings.
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/27/this-power-strip-is-a-fire-starter/
In the meantime, plugging directly into the wall socket will eliminate THAT as a potential source of the problem. And do not EVER, EVER EVER EVER EVER, plug one power strip into another power strip and then plug your PSU into THAT. Using a power strip for other things such as USB hubs, your monitor, etc., is "ok" but is really still not the best idea if it's not a quality product, but the PSU itself should only be plugged into the wall, a quality strip or a UPS system.
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