PSU questions

[AzNPinkTuv]

my shuttle psu i bought last month has been serving my shuttle well.. the 300 watt one... its powering a p4 3.2 northwood, evga 7800gs superclocked 1 IDE hd, 1 DVD R/RW and a floppy and a keyboard mouse and what not... ive notived today that the +12 rail however in PCwizard shows 11.19 or 11.25... is that a problem, is my psu dying?

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

bump

 

[Zepper]

Is your system acting flakey?

Is that voltage the +12 or the -12?

Measured with a meter or software?

If the answere to 1 is NO, and you ARE reading the +12, but not with a METER, then measure it with a meter and get back to us. I'd definitely get it replaced if that reading IS of the +12 rail with a METER - that is well under the +/- 5% spec.

.bh.

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

system seems fine, reading +12 but not with a meeter, i need help on measuring it with a meeter.. how would i go about doing it and stuff... and thats about it

 

[Zepper]

Any yellow wire coming from the PSU is a +12 lead - any black wire is ground. Set meter to read voltage (10V scale should be fine - some may need to be set at 100V scale - whichever is nearest or higher than 12V) black lead from meter goes to ground, red goes to +12 source. simple.

.bh.

 

[Luckyboy1]

Voltages on boards are considered to be within tolerance if within 5% of the wanted voltage. So, anything below 11.4 volts is out of spec.

I doubt your power supply is dying so much as it is overtaxed.

 

[leegroves86]

ya, what they all said. software voltage readers suck. In my experience they are totally unreliable. Unless things start acting up then there is no need to worry a bit.