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Power surge detected problem
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- Oct 28, 2009
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Try a different outlet in your place of residence. Does it work fine? You may have a power problem with a particular circuit. If so, you'd need to call an electrician to fix this problem.
One thing that's always good to do is to get a battery backup unit that conditions the power prior to feeding it to the PC. This way you protect your PC by always feeding it good, clean power.
One thing that's always good to do is to get a battery backup unit that conditions the power prior to feeding it to the PC. This way you protect your PC by always feeding it good, clean power.
- May 18, 2007
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Asus Anti-Surge warnings are due to something causing the power supply outputs to exceed what Asus considers safe limits.
There are three possible causes:
- defective power supply
- defective device causing surges by dumping load, usually the GPU
- defective/out of tolerance Anti-Surge thresholds
There are three possible causes:
- defective power supply
- defective device causing surges by dumping load, usually the GPU
- defective/out of tolerance Anti-Surge thresholds
- Feb 13, 2014
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How old is this power supply? if its very new or very old it could be defective or dying. I would try a different outlet like said above. A UPS would be nice if you have dirty power in your area but for a decent one they can be very expensive.
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Since anti-surge warnings are about the voltage on the 3.3/5/12V outputs, it is unlikely that using a different outlet or adding a UPS will make any difference.
The only way I can imagine this happening is if an defective external self-powered device was dumping current through its PC connection and that current was ending up on one of the power rails.
The only way I can imagine this happening is if an defective external self-powered device was dumping current through its PC connection and that current was ending up on one of the power rails.
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Short of having access to an oscilloscope to look at exactly what is happening on the supply rails, you have two other options:
1- hope that the Anti-Surge warnings are false positives and disable Anti-Surge in the BIOS
2- try a different PSU of adequate power rating and decent quality. Since you currently have no GPU, you could easily make-do with something like an Antec VP450 which you should be able to find for $40, possibly less
Or possibly three:
3- try disabling CPU C6 state somewhere under the Power options if it is still enabled. Since you have no GPU to help load the PSU down, the PSU might be having a hard time with transients under very light load. You actually might want to try this first.
1- hope that the Anti-Surge warnings are false positives and disable Anti-Surge in the BIOS
2- try a different PSU of adequate power rating and decent quality. Since you currently have no GPU, you could easily make-do with something like an Antec VP450 which you should be able to find for $40, possibly less
Or possibly three:
3- try disabling CPU C6 state somewhere under the Power options if it is still enabled. Since you have no GPU to help load the PSU down, the PSU might be having a hard time with transients under very light load. You actually might want to try this first.
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