Correcting Abnormal Voltages

[EKR]

My voltages are all wrong. My 3.3V is at 4.08, my 5V at 6.05, and my 12V at 16.32! And my Vcore is at 4.16. There is an option of setting the voltage to "ignore", but I don't that's the right solution...

How do I deal with this? Do I need to buy a new PSU? Does it need a thorough vacuuming? Help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[contrvlr]

My voltages are all wrong. My 3.3V is at 4.08, my 5V at 6.05, and my 12V at 16.32! And my Vcore is at 4.16. There is an option of setting the voltage to "ignore", but I don't that's the right solution...

How do I deal with this? Do I need to buy a new PSU? Does it need a thorough vacuuming? Help would be greatly appreciated.

Software voltage readings ?
I imagine that the cpu would go pop at 4.16v
For the psu, get a DMM and manually test
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDFAQs&op=FAQ_Question&ndfaq_id=28

 

[EKR]

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that these readings are from my BIOS. Do you think they are unrealistically high?

 

[Ayah]

A V_core of 4.16V with any reasonably modern processor is instant-death. I think the latest processor that wouldn't fry with that voltage was what, the pentium 2's?

Most definitely a faulty software reading.

 

[EKR]

Oh okay lol. Mine is a Core2Duo E6600. From 2007.
And I did check if there was smoke coming out from under the heatsink. Everything seemed quite normal. I haven't so much as had my desktop turned on for about half a year, maybe that's the reason for the faulty readings.
Part of the story is also that my PSU is a Corsair HX620, admittedly also from 2007. But I still couldn't quite understand how it could have gone so wrong!

 

[contrvlr]

Oh okay lol. Mine is a Core2Duo E6600. From 2007.
And I did check if there was smoke coming out from under the heatsink. Everything seemed quite normal. I haven't so much as had my desktop turned on for about half a year, maybe that's the reason for the faulty readings.
Part of the story is also that my PSU is a Corsair HX620, admittedly also from 2007. But I still couldn't quite understand how it could have gone so wrong!

Gave my son my old system, Q9650, the HX620 in it was purchased in Jan.'07, still runs in spec

 

[EKR]

Yes, it's always performed well. So I should just assume that the rest of the readings are faulty, right?