Power surges! Any potential damage? Please help

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#1  Edited By Serioussamik
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There was a power surge yesterday and voltages fluctuated enough for my P8Z68 V LE mobo to issue me a warning "Power surges were detected. System was powered off" sorta thing. My PSU is a Corsair TX 650 and I use an UPS that was plugged on to spike guard socket (sigh! so much for precautions and still the message).

My question is, did it fry anything? I checked the power readings (in mobo monitor) and they were 3.376 V, 5.080 V and 12.196 V with the CPU Core 1.112/1.120. Now I monitor occasionally and these were the same as the last time.

Anything I need to do to check if the PSU/Mobo suffered any damage? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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#2  Edited By GeryGo  Moderator
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Moved to Hardware forum

Question is, do you encounter any sort of new problems or do you suffer from performance loss while gaming or anything alike? if not they leave it to be

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#3 horgen  Moderator
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@Serioussamik said:

There was a power surge yesterday and voltages fluctuated enough for my P8Z68 V LE mobo to issue me a warning "Power surges were detected. System was powered off" sorta thing. My PSU is a Corsair TX 650 and I use an UPS that was plugged on to spike guard socket (sigh! so much for precautions and still the message).

My question is, did it fry anything? I checked the power readings (in mobo monitor) and they were 3.376 V, 5.080 V and 12.196 V with the CPU Core 1.112/1.120. Now I monitor occasionally and these were the same as the last time.

Anything I need to do to check if the PSU/Mobo suffered any damage? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

I assume that was the power readings at the time you checked. Thus not the spikes you may have encountered. I don't know what windows write down in its logs.. Which name it has in English I don't remember... Something similar to event log I think.

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#4  Edited By Truth_Hurts_U
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Recommended is 5% +/- for 3.3v and 5v. 12v is 10% +/-.

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#5  Edited By JigglyWiggly_
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If it still works, it's probably fine. Also the clamping voltages for UPSs are typically quite bad. So you may want to plug in a better surge protector in after the UPS.

Also AFAIK surge protection on motherboards triggers very early.

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#6 Serioussamik
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Thanks for your replies guys.

@horgen- It was not a Windows log. That message was displayed on the BIOS screen.

@PredatorRules-Nope no problems in the last 24 hours and I played Far Cr 4 for 3 hours straight, but no new performance issues.

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Keep gaming my friend. No worries.