Hi all.
Just encountered another sudden loss of power to my 6 month old PC (all new components) I built, I'm not sure if this issue is being caused by my PSU.
This issue causes a sudden loss of power for approximately 1-2 seconds of every thing that I have connected to my surge protector, including my monitor, a Phillips Hue light strip and my PC. I'm not entirely sure whether a PC can cause a surge protector to 'trip', I would appreciate if someone could enlighten me on that. Also wondering if this is coincidental and the surge protector is doing its job as there may have been some sort of voltage sag from the mains.
It doesn't seem to trip a breaker in the house, nor seem to affect other appliances such as the TV.
I believe it could be that the surge protector has grounded the power for a split second as for what ever reason, or a faulty PSU/component has some how caused the surge protector to trip.
The surge protector is rated at 2400W and 6/8 sockets are populated with every item I have including my PC monitor etc.
My house and wiring is approximately 13-14 years old currently.
The surge protector is Belkin Pro 4000 8 way surge protector which is a decent model here in Australia (6 months old). This surge protector has some sort of inrush current protection which may cause some sort of instability, i'm not entirely sure.
It doesn't seem to happen in any sort of circumstances, when it happened today I was playing a light game/sim (Prepar3D) which was not utilising my full GPU/CPU as I had the FPS limited quite low which can be easily handled by my specs (only running on a single core too).
On the other two occurrences I was browsing Google Chrome.
Event Viewer spits out the classic Kernel Power event 41 and nothing else...
I checked my BIOS for PSU voltage states, all returned to be absolutely perfect on the 3.3v, 5V and 12V power rails.
Vcore was also perfectly fine at 1.225V as set as a manual overclock at 4.8GHz. (The first loss of power occurred BEFORE i had the system overclocked, I did attempt extensive stability testing for many hours, but I could not get the system to suddenly lose power/BSOD).
I used HWinfo to verify that things didn't go out of norm when gaming, which they didn't either.
Temps:
Idle: 30C-35C
P95: 60C-70C
Gaming: 40C-50C
PC Specs:
MB: Asus XI Hero
CPU: I7 9700K
GPU: ASUS RTX 2080
RAM: Corsair 16GB 3200MHz
PSU: Corsair RM850X
Thanks in advance.
Just encountered another sudden loss of power to my 6 month old PC (all new components) I built, I'm not sure if this issue is being caused by my PSU.
This issue causes a sudden loss of power for approximately 1-2 seconds of every thing that I have connected to my surge protector, including my monitor, a Phillips Hue light strip and my PC. I'm not entirely sure whether a PC can cause a surge protector to 'trip', I would appreciate if someone could enlighten me on that. Also wondering if this is coincidental and the surge protector is doing its job as there may have been some sort of voltage sag from the mains.
It doesn't seem to trip a breaker in the house, nor seem to affect other appliances such as the TV.
I believe it could be that the surge protector has grounded the power for a split second as for what ever reason, or a faulty PSU/component has some how caused the surge protector to trip.
The surge protector is rated at 2400W and 6/8 sockets are populated with every item I have including my PC monitor etc.
My house and wiring is approximately 13-14 years old currently.
The surge protector is Belkin Pro 4000 8 way surge protector which is a decent model here in Australia (6 months old). This surge protector has some sort of inrush current protection which may cause some sort of instability, i'm not entirely sure.
It doesn't seem to happen in any sort of circumstances, when it happened today I was playing a light game/sim (Prepar3D) which was not utilising my full GPU/CPU as I had the FPS limited quite low which can be easily handled by my specs (only running on a single core too).
On the other two occurrences I was browsing Google Chrome.
Event Viewer spits out the classic Kernel Power event 41 and nothing else...
I checked my BIOS for PSU voltage states, all returned to be absolutely perfect on the 3.3v, 5V and 12V power rails.
Vcore was also perfectly fine at 1.225V as set as a manual overclock at 4.8GHz. (The first loss of power occurred BEFORE i had the system overclocked, I did attempt extensive stability testing for many hours, but I could not get the system to suddenly lose power/BSOD).
I used HWinfo to verify that things didn't go out of norm when gaming, which they didn't either.
Temps:
Idle: 30C-35C
P95: 60C-70C
Gaming: 40C-50C
PC Specs:
MB: Asus XI Hero
CPU: I7 9700K
GPU: ASUS RTX 2080
RAM: Corsair 16GB 3200MHz
PSU: Corsair RM850X
Thanks in advance.
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