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Cosmo56

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Hey there,
Well, so i decided to put together a nice rig...XP 1600+, gigabyte 7VTXE, geforce 2 Ti, 256Mb DDR (made by a company called nanya), and an enermax 450W psu. Okay, all is well for anything other than gaming. I'm running windows 2000 pro w/SP2, and my computer has been running seti now for about 4 days without a lockup. Other than when i go to try to do any gaming. So, i checked my voltages and on my 5v rail i'm only getting anywhere between 4.81v-4.89v I know this is within spec of the psu, but its not where i want at all, I wanted to get an antec psu but i ended up with an enermax. Anyways, I'm definately not using up the 450W of the psu because all i have in the rig other than what i mentioned before is a Maxtor 7200 40gb HD, and a burner. What does everyone think is wrong here? I thought it was because of the low voltages that my system is locking up during gaming right from the start so i tried 3 other psu's and they all give me <5v which now makes be believe that something is wrong with the gigabyte. Has anyone seen this before? what does everyone think...the video card, the motherboard, what? I dont think its the ram because i can run the ram maxed out in something like sandra indefinately with no problems at cas 2 and 145MHz fsb. So, i think its the motherboard, what do you think?
 
First off try for grins and giggles to lower the FSB back to 133 and see if you have lock up in games, if still try reinstalling the VIA AGP drivers, video card driver, then DirectX8 to see if that might solve your problems.

The low 5V reading are ok if I remember right from reading around here, the tolerence is 5%? @.25V (5-.25 = 4.75V) I might be wrong but someone will happily correct me if I am 😉

EDIT: If you have the VIA chipset on it BTW, I don't know what chipset is on that board..
 
Hey again,

Okay, so i went into the store where i picked up all of my stuff and hung around there for what seemed like hours, what happened in the end was that i walked out of the store with the MSI version of the KT266A, its very similar to the gigabyte BUT right of the bat when i first booted i was most curious as to what the 5v rail voltage would be and guess what? it was just above 5v! so, my system booted up and everything fine, but just to be on the good and safe side i did decide to format/reinstall 2000 and in the end now, at 1:32am my system is working sweet and just finished a round of 3dmark2001 with a score of 5935. so, I'm not sure if it was software or hardware, but i'm sure that the fact that the gigabyte NEVER had a voltage reading in the bios of even near 5v didn't help before at all. btw, i was running at both stock and oc'd fsb for the 3dmark tests it just didn't make any difference. anyways later all!

 
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