Power issues.

[VintageElise]

Hey guys.

Basically, on Saturday, my video card seemed to die. Turned purple and refused to boot with it installed. No problem, got a new one sent out to me yesterday. Should arrive in about 3 hours.

Anyhoo, today after moving house my PC does some random things power wise. It will either get to the 'Starting Windows' screen and shut down, and when it boots, tell me it had a surge warning and protected itself, or it just randomly re-starts whenever it feels like it, or just won't boot at all.

The things that may have caused it:

1) The move may have knocked something - but I've made sure everything is still in place.
2) USB Pins crossing and that seems fine.
3) I've removed my graphics card (to return) so it's currently outputting through on-board with HDMI.

Any suggestions? Specs as follows.

COOLERMASTER ELITE 310 BLUE CASE
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Change to: Intel® Core™i5-2400 Quad Core (3.10GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard ASUS® P8Z68-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM) 4GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card 1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
3rd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 250GB SATA-II 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
SSD CACHE DRIVE NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Change to: NONE
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NONE
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply 600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling INTEL SOCKET LGA1155 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Fan Controller NONE
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

 

[Rakk]

Anyhoo, today after moving house my PC does some random things power wise. It will either get to the 'Starting Windows' screen and shut down, and when it boots, tell me it had a surge warning and protected itself, or it just randomly re-starts whenever it feels like it, or just won't boot at all.

That sounds like it could be power surges/drops from your power supply (note, this are just my thoughts, could be wrong)

Have you got a surge protector plug thing anywhere you could use for a bit and see if the surge warnings disappear, just incase its a problem with the power socket on your wall, I say this cos if you've just moved house, this could be why it's just started happening since you moved.
Edit: or try a different plug socket.

 

[Al.Neri]

...

your name sounds familiar.

 

[VintageElise]

That sounds like it could be power surges/drops from your power supply (note, this are just my thoughts, could be wrong)

Have you got a surge protector plug thing anywhere you could use for a bit and see if the surge warnings disappear, just incase its a problem with the power socket on your wall, I say this cos if you've just moved house, this could be why it's just started happening since you moved.
Edit: or try a different plug socket.

It was already plugged into a surge protector. As soon as I installed my new graphics card, seemed to work fine again...Odd.

your name sounds familiar.

I use it everywhere. PSU, Neogaf, PSN, Steam other random places. `

 

[Al.Neri]

that's where I know it from then, PSU