Voltages seem WAY off - please advise

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:40 am

Well I am attaching a pic of the voltages from speedfan on this dual core e6600 overclocked to 3.2ghz with BIOS auto determining the voltages. This has the Ultra X Connect 2 550 watt power supply that I won on here

- http://forums.legitreviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=7353

These voltages seem to be WAY off. I started looking around when F@H started to end work units early from errors, so I was looking for instability on my overclock when I found these voltages.

Any advise will be greatly appreciated like always!!

Mike

Oh and fan 2 is preparing for liftoff to travel at light speed to different galaxies

camaroguy1998 · Post by **camaroguy1998** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:52 am

Have you tried any other system monitor?
I definitely would!
If you have another PSU switch them and see what happens with your voltages. Your +12V rail is ridiculously low!

Post by **dicecca112** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:18 am

Software voltage readings are notoriously off. Get a multimeter, and check them that way. Hell my 12V according to speedfan was like 9.88, and in reality its 12.05 steady

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:26 am

What other system monitor program should I try?

I have a multimeter

no clue what to hit with the little red and black rods though

I was thinking red to the red and black to the black, but since these cables are all silver, it kinda makes it difficult!

I guess the cable layout is the same as all the rest...Yellow-Black-Black-Red....

Will test if you can help me figure out where to probe!

Mike

Amazingly this whole system in the APC PowerChute program only uses 210watts...with the monitor and other things hooked to it.

odie2190 · Post by **odie2190** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:06 pm

probably not compatible with your mobo. same thing happened to me with smart guardian. try core temp thats what i use. http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:06 am

odie2190 wrote:probably not compatible with your mobo. same thing happened to me with smart guardian. try core temp thats what i use. http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/

Core temp doesnt show power supply voltages - unless I am missing something

Mike

odie2190 · Post by **odie2190** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:44 pm

i just look at temperatures sorry!

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:06 am

KnightRid wrote:What other system monitor program should I try?

I have a multimeter no clue what to hit with the little red and black rods though

I was thinking red to the red and black to the black, but since these cables are all silver, it kinda makes it difficult!

I guess the cable layout is the same as all the rest...Yellow-Black-Black-Red....

Will test if you can help me figure out where to probe!

Mike

Amazingly this whole system in the APC PowerChute program only uses 210watts...with the monitor and other things hooked to it.

Yes it will follow the same layout, the two middle cables are ground (black), you use the black probe on any one of these. The outside cables will be +12v (yellow) & +5v (red). You use the red probe on the multi on these.
You can check the 3v line via the ATX power connector, it's the orange cable and you can attach the black (ground) probe to ANY ground cable (black) on the psu when taking a reading.

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:04 am

Thanx Ken - I wil ltry and shock myself, err, check voltages today!

Mike

bzzzz, hot wire, bzzzz, hot wire,--- ground ahhhhhhh