voltage setting warning - it's beeping at me

[rh71]

New Abit NF7-S board that I installed this afternoon with a Barton 2800+ and I threw the ABIT EQ monitor program on as well.. and when I run it, it's beeping at me indicating something's wrong... the only thing out of whack is:

-12v is currently at "-13.27" when the threshold is set at -13.00 through -11.00... that's why it's beeping.

How do I rectify this and is it bad to be at -13.27 ?

Not O/Cing.

 

[Jeff7181]

I'd call it a faulty power supply.

 

[myocardia]

Just change it to -6v to -15v, since the -12v rail isn't used on any of the new mobos anyway.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: myocardia
Just change it to -6v to -15v, since the -12v rail isn't used on any of the new mobos anyway.

Your hard drive, CD/DVD drives, floppy drives, and some video cards sure as hell do though...

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: myocardia
Just change it to -6v to -15v, since the -12v rail isn't used on any of the new mobos anyway.

Your hard drive, CD/DVD drives, floppy drives, and some video cards sure as hell do though...

Hmmm, I'm gonna have to research that, then. My ~$100 Antec TruePower has been running at ~-6v since I got it, and I have had less stability problems with this system than any I've ever built or owned!

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: myocardia
Just change it to -6v to -15v, since the -12v rail isn't used on any of the new mobos anyway.

Your hard drive, CD/DVD drives, floppy drives, and some video cards sure as hell do though...

Hmmm, I'm gonna have to research that, then. My ~$100 Antec TruePower has been running at ~-6v since I got it, and I have had less stability problems with this system than any I've ever built or owned!

:Q

 

[myocardia]

You know what I just thought about, Jeff? Antec's, especially the TruePower's like I have, are known for having very stable rails, and also for being good "right out of the box". Since I know my motherboard already has one bad sensor (my cpu fan spins at ~6800 rpm, but is reported at ~1500 rpm), it probably isn't low at all, it's only being reported low. Because if the hard-drives and cd/dvd drives are affected, I would have been having many stability problems by now, don't you think?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: myocardia
You know what I just thought about, Jeff? Antec's, especially the TruePower's like I have, are known for having very stable rails, and also for being good "right out of the box". Since I know my motherboard already has one bad sensor (my cpu fan spins at ~6800 rpm, but is reported at ~1500 rpm), it probably isn't low at all, it's only being reported low. Because if the hard-drives and cd/dvd drives are affected, I would have been having many stability problems by now, don't you think?

Frankly I doubt any of your hard drives/optical drives would work at all if they were only getting 6 volts... check it out if you have a digital multi-meter... the yellow wire is the 12 V wire... just connect your leads to a black one and the yellow one and it should read about 12 volts... if it's reading 6, and the red wire reads 5... hmmmm 😀

 

[myocardia]

They wouldn't, but we aren't talking about the 12v rail in this thread, we are talking about the -12v rail.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: myocardia
They wouldn't, but we aren't talking about the 12v rail in this thread, we are talking about the -12v rail.

OOOOHHHHHH... that's different then, lol. I wouldn't worry about it at all then =) I guess I missed that 😀

 

[rh71]

I forgot to mention it's an Antec 300w PSU that I was using for my 1.0GHz machine.. didn't bother to pick up a new one as I upgraded the core parts.

So I should just ignore this warning as -12v isn't used by this mobo anyway ? What was it used for in the past ?

I just fear it causing a short / fire. 😱