Recent content by tufkal

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    Testing Power Supply Rails-

    So I have a reallly wierd PC im trying to fix, where the DVD-ROM and HD both died at the same time, but everything else seems fine. I have a new power supply to replace the old one, but im not convinced it was his PS. I have a multimeter and according to the mutlimeter, and the bios readout...
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    Motherboard sensor readings got me worried

    I just hit up www.formfactor.org and looked at the ATX spec, I see there they have removed pretty much all instances of the -5v in the last few revisions, so I guess l learned somethign new :) So basically, unless I have a ATX board with ISA slots, this voltage sensor is monitoring a part...
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    Motherboard sensor readings got me worried

    A pretty generic one from Hercules, a 450Watt with 2 80mm fans that i got for cheap. A quick google and i found it. http://tekgems.com/Products/et...wr-her-dual450w-nb.htm These motherboards readings are kinda annoying, you never see em or worry about em til you stare at them for a...
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    Motherboard sensor readings got me worried

    Well I finally figured out which modules need to be loaded for my MSI KT8 motherboard so that lm_sensors can detect the I2C chip. And i got the sensor readings plugged into gkrellm, but a few things are making me worried. 1) My vcore was too low, like 1.45. In my bios it was set to auto, i...