surge protector

When booting up a Windows PC equipped with an ASUS motherboard, some users have become all too familiar with an alarming BIOS message: “ASUS Anti-Surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply unit.” For both enthusiasts and everyday computer users, this warning can be an...

COMPUTER SPECS. hp laptop, model g72-227wm Windows 7 Home Prem. OA Intel Pentium dual core T4500 (2.30 GHz) 3 GB memory, 320(?) GB HDD Intel GMA 4500M IMPORTANCE AND COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE This laptop is maybe 10+ years old. I'm a musician and use it exclusively for recording stripped-down...

Running a new Dell laptop under Win10. I have a j5create powered 7-port 3.0 hub that seems to have a mind of its own. Sometimes all ports work, sometimes none of them work, and the rest of the time -- well, you get the idea. The PC is new, the cable connections are solid, it's plugged into a...

Hi fast question. My mobo Asus Z170-P and psu Corsair 750RM. 3 months ago there was power outage ( for short time ) in my house,and my pc restart with message: "“Power supply surges detected during the previous power on ASUS anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable supply unit.”...

This might belong in some other section, but my question concerns the amount of connections to an Uninterruptible power supply. See, I have an older, WW2-era wiring setup in my house, so I worry about too much on one fuse. I have the CyberPower model CP 1350c, with details, here: Link...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I recently installed a new MSI motherboard to my computer, and a new power source. Everything worked perfectly until I started noticing that the 4 external USB hard drives (On-Board Powered) where not being recognized by windows 7 after reboot...

Is it ok plugging multi-taps in surge protectors, generally speaking? I think there may be a problem in the long term use, of doing it the other way, i.e. plugging surge protectors INTO multi-taps, but is there a problem plugging in multi-taps into surge protectors? To be specific, I don't...

Hello all; For the past several mornings, when clicking my mouse to wake my PC from sleep mode, my screen remains completely black. I can hear the PC start up, the fan running, etc. I can even hear the Windows log on sound when I punch in my password. All power lights are on, but the monitor...

I took months of convincing the most stubborn of XP users but I finally got my buddy to try Windows 7. He had it up and running for a few hours and he loved it until...his power went out. He couldn't boot up and windows 7 couldn't repair startup, he tried every option and they all failed. He's...

I bought this about a year ago, an APC battery backup surge protection, 350 es. Now I'm having problems with it. I get frequent power surges that when it does happen I can here a click in the battery backup. This happens when the PC is on or off. When PC is off and this happens and I turn my PC...

My UPS has been having a problem, and about a month ago, I found that 'my' UPS was not working as a voltage stabilizer. But I don't know if UPS is generally designed to work as a voltage stabilizer. Is it?