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cnjmorris

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Antec 350w Power Suply
AMD 64 3400+
Asus K8N-E Deluxe
WD Raptor HD 74GB
1GB Corsair Value Select Ram.
BFG 6600GT OC 128MB.


After about a week of running the machine it began rebooting while in use. I'l be working or playing a game and it will reset. I then have to use the hard reset switch on the power suply to reset. Then the audio error reporting says "System fail due to system overclocking." The problem with this is the fact that the system is made to be overclocked, and yet it is NOT overclocked at all. Everything is running stock, I have made no changed other than turning off fast write because I have an nVidia card.

I cleared the CMOS and tried again and it seemed to temprarily fix it. However before long it crashed again.

I left the computer off over night and today I was able to play for an hour before it messed up. I can't see it being overheating because everything is warm to the touch, but not hot at all when I touch them. Plus periodic checks of the Asus Probe says that the temperatures are WELL withing the safe range.

Asus Probe is reporting the 3.3v as running at 2.8ish... which I don't quite understand since I am running a SATA drive and a cdrom drive and that is all.

Can anyone suggest what might be causing this???
 
if the voltage is reported correctly - then there are problems.
3.3v should run between 3.0v and 3.6v,
but ideally, between 3.15 and 3.5
 
yes, but would this cause the problem I described? the power supply is 2 months old and I can't afford to replace anything not directly effecting the symptoms.
 
Originally posted by: cnjmorris

Asus Probe is reporting the 3.3v as running at 2.8ish... which I don't quite understand since I am running a SATA drive and a cdrom drive and that is all.

Can anyone suggest what might be causing this???
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The 3.3V line is used to run stuff on the motherboard, while the 12V line is used for HDD, CPU and optical drives.

BTW is the molex plug on your video card connected?
 
Yes, the graphics card was plugged in.

So, I tried all kinds of stuff. I reset motherboard etc, and while doing so I notice that on the 12v cord for the powersuply 3 of the pins are brown/scorched. I inspected the motherboard and it seems it has the same effect.

SO, what do I do now? Odds are motherboard maker will blame powersuply and vise versa.

Please refrain from comments like 'sorry man, sounds like you're screwed' because I've been dealing with this crap for over a month, spent money we didn't have to get a stable PC and it laster a whole week.
 
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