Help, Audigy2 glitchy, Ti4600 glitchy - Enermax 365 with suspect voltages.

[davidrees]

Ok, my system is normally super stable.

*NOTHING IS OVERCLOCKED*

Epox 8k7a+
AMD XP1800
2X Kingston HyperX 512MB 333mhz
MSI Ti4600 (newest nVidia - this week)
Audigy 2 6.1 card (drivers updated this week)

I got a Quantum 40G 7200 for C: and a Maxtor 80G (2MB) 5400 for D:
Aopen 24X CDRW

8X 80mm fans in case

Enermax 365W - with the fan knob and the speed monitoring.

Vcore 1.83
Vagp 1.60
3.3v 3.06
5v 5.05
12v 12.78

CPU temp is 39-40 consistent.

Video fan is working fine


I am wondering if my PS is going out - the 3.3 looks suspect, not sure about the others - this is as reported on the mobo bios hardware monitor screen.


Here is what happens:

I reloaded NOLF2 - I got it when I had 256MB and it ran like crap. It runs good on the 1G now.

I noticed it had some glitches in certain places - flickering, screen going black, then locking. Thought it was the game.

Now it has been doing that in Planetside which always ran well.

The whole picture will get wiggly - like the scan rate is not steady and then the PC locks up.

Also - the Audigy 2 is often garbled - especially when I play my starting .wav (Creative splash is off) and when the hard drive is doing something.

It seems like I can use the internet fine - but when I put the PC under load while playing a game, it crashes.

I am getting a new mobo and a XP3000 any day - should I get a new PS? Any chance it is the nvidia drivers?

I am pretty confused and I have built hundreds of PCs - I would think the Enermax PS would hold up and do well - but I tend to suspect power first when things get weird like this.

 

[davidrees]

bump.bmp

 

[txxxx]

Sounds like what happened when my Geforce's fan stopped running.

 

[maluckey]

You seem to suspect everything as the problem. That's surely possible, but highly improbable. First check all the fans, then look at the temps. Then uninstall all the video and audio drivers, restart the system and reinstall all of them.

It sounds like driver, and/or OS corruption to me (if the temps and fans are OK). My system was corrupted by a large power spike, and I spent days trying workarounds and "fixes", trying to stabilize it. In the end, I deleted the partition, repartitioned, formatted and reloaded windows. It fixed everything in 55 minutes flat.

The 3.3 volt line on your PS does seem a little low. Are you sure that it's the PS? You could check it with a voltmeter.
The motherboard itself could also be the problem. It's the only thing you aren't suspicious of! The mobo could be misreading the temp sensors, or cause them to be off, if the mobo is damaged/bad. Without a volt reading apart from the mobo you can't get a good reading from the PS.

 

[davidrees]

Turns out, my epox board had leaky caps - should have seen that one coming.

Now, I got the Asus A7N8X-X board, my XP3000 and 2x 512MB od PC2700 HyperX

The maching runs like a top - except for one problem - it randomly resets now

Seems more likely when I am doing something in 3D - like switching resolutions or something but it also just happened when I was using a browser