Mother board power surge protection reseting my rig?

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Typolo

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So I don't see any signs of a power surge in my home and my power is relatively reliable.

My system has reset to a black screen with with white text. it tells me that the motherboard has reset the system to protect it from a power surge.

The first time I thought it was because I kicked the power strip that my power supply is plugged into, but the 2nd time I know it wasn't that.

I have an HX650 from corsair. Calculators rated my systems max power draw as ~625 watts with a 4770k and r9 290. I realize that amd recommends 700 watts. Should I use the HD4000 graphics from intel until I upgrade to something around 700-800watts?

Also I was going to give my psu to a friend when I upgrade, but now i'm not sure if it will work properly /:

My motherboard is the maximus vi hero.

So how could I find out if this is power supply, my power use, motherboard, or something else I'm unaware of?
 


I'm guessing HWinfo is just reading our systems differently. I would still love to figure out how to read the rails' voltages in there though :)