- Feb 20, 2002
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Well today after finishing up some dye hard problem free (except I was getting wasted) Counter Strike play I decided to play some RTCW multiplayer...though I only have the demo version. So I load up and connect...everything is going good...i waste 4 guys from the water using the sniper rifle...anyway... After about 5 min the system locked up...I hit ctrl+alt+del and the sound went off (it was repeating) but nothing else happened. So I wated a few secs and then killed it w/ the reset switch. Then i was like hum that's wierd...so i booted into bios and looked at the hardware monitor. Chip temp was 42C, so no biggie there. Then I noticed something quite shocking... the 5vt + rail on my psu is only supplying 4.6volts. WTF? So I continue to boot and the system hangs...I restart...knock the speed down to 1ghz and it still hangs ...this time going into safe mode. I then try entering safe mode like half a dozen more times...in which cases it hangs half a dozen more times. So I shut down and go to the other computer and go to MS's web site...doesn't help so 20 min later i'm back and it boots fine at 1ghz. I checked MBM5 in windows and at 1ghz it shows the 5v rail at 4.7v which is still pretty bad correct? Anyway I'm guessing I should ditch this PSU and get a new antec one... I think I'll get a 1040B SoHo server case and the PSU together...lol...so I have an excuse to get a new case. I just wanted to confirm that my PSU may have had some fualt in this before buying a new one. It's a 400watt Future Power PSU but only has 165watts between the 3.3v and 5v rails, which are only rated at 20A and 28A respectively. I know the antecs put out something like 240ish between these 2 rails so I'm guessing they would help me out....what do ya think?
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