I have been having trouble with my graphics card, and I was thinking it was a power issue. So I installed Motherboard Monitor 5 and pulled up the voltages on my system. It reads:
+3.3 = 3.14
+5.0 = 4.18
+12.0 = 11.95
-12.0 = -9.43
-5.0 = -4.86
Now what exactly do these numbers mean? What concerns me is that I am not getting close enough to the voltages they should be, esp the -12 one. And these numbers are not stable. They fluctuate by +- 1.0 sometimes Of course, it might be reading the board wrong.
I am running a 300watt generic pw supply with 2 hard drives, a dvd,cd-rw, ide zip, floppy, Raden 9800 reg, nforce2 ultra mobo with Athlon 1.2, and 3 vantec stealth fans. Could it be that I dont have enough power? IS there a better way to tell than using MoBo monitor?
Steve
compnut5x
+3.3 = 3.14
+5.0 = 4.18
+12.0 = 11.95
-12.0 = -9.43
-5.0 = -4.86
Now what exactly do these numbers mean? What concerns me is that I am not getting close enough to the voltages they should be, esp the -12 one. And these numbers are not stable. They fluctuate by +- 1.0 sometimes Of course, it might be reading the board wrong.
I am running a 300watt generic pw supply with 2 hard drives, a dvd,cd-rw, ide zip, floppy, Raden 9800 reg, nforce2 ultra mobo with Athlon 1.2, and 3 vantec stealth fans. Could it be that I dont have enough power? IS there a better way to tell than using MoBo monitor?
Steve
compnut5x