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O_O voltege drops with everest...

Well..if your motherboard is even halfway accuratley reporting your rail voltages..you have a awful..mostly tits up powersupply ..not only is the 3.3 rail screwed but the 12 vlt rail is way out of spec. tolerances are 3-5% on rails ..with 3% being the optimum even under load.
 
your getting that from everest doubt there accurate if you want a accurate measurement use a digital multi-meter like John suggested.
 
yeah a cheap $10 digital multimeter will work. Check the voltages by probing the connections on the pins while the powersupply is on. If your power supply gives good voltages but your comupter sporatically crashes, then your mobo is bad. I've had a board go bad from a low/fluctuating 5v rail and the powersupply was fine. It turened out that I needed a voltage regulator/UPS or a high quality power supply. The voltage in our house seems to flicker/brownout too often and the utility says it's fine on their end.
 
no, I am technical minded. I should of rephased my qustion, I meant to ask, When the PC is on, with all the Molex plugs plugged in, Can I just stick the DMM though the wire or try to get though a pin, and get the reading I need? Cause I have no free connectors.
 
Don't push through a wire!!

You can access the back side of all the connectors and easily get a reading that way.
 
Argh stupid radioshack DMM, these suck hardcore, I should stole the Fluke one I played with at work... lol
 
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