Help! VDD voltage on my epox board is going crazy!

Malix

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This system has been running 200fsb since i bought it about 2 years ago completely stable. Right now Im staying at a friends house for a couple of weeks and brought the system with me. Someone else unplugged everything of mine to hook up their own computer, now that i have hooked mine back up it wont even run at stock speeds and voltages.

At first it booted fine, but crashed during games. I turned down all the overclocking to try to get it to run better but since then it has just gotten worse and now restarts everytime right as windows is starting to load. The only problem i can see is that the VDD voltage is fluctuating wildly from anywhere between 1.45v and 1.65v. When it goes down around 1.45v it turns red on the voltage monitor, so im thinking that might be my problem. This board has no VDD adjustments in the BIOS, and i didnt do any mods to it.

Any ideas at all? Im really stumped on this one, im almost ready to just order a new motherboard right now.

Epox 8rda+
Athlon 2100+
1024 Geil DDR433
Gainward Ti4400
 

Malix

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PSU is only about a year old, its a 420w Antec True Blue. I dont really have another PSU i can swap in to test with though.

Ill check the caps next.
 

Malix

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Argh... you were right... exploded caps.

Oh well, i guess that means its time to upgrade.
 

RadiclDreamer

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Originally posted by: Malix
Argh... you were right... exploded caps.

Oh well, i guess that means its time to upgrade.

Sweet, glad I could help! :) sucks about your board tho :(