What to trust? Bios or PC Wizard?

[micquebec]

Hi guys,

I need your expertise.

Yesterday, my video card died on me. But maybe not... I've been told that maybe the Power Supply is the culprit....so I went to check the 12V rail.

My Power Supply is a Corsair HX620W and the video card is(was) a 8800GTX

Here are my findings :

PC Wizard 12V : 10.61V.
Bios : 12.03V

If it's the former, there is a big problem with my power supply. If it's the latter, then my video card is truly dead.

Which is more trustworthy? Bios or PC Wizard?

And before you ask me, I did read to not trust software and to get a DC reader directly in the molexes. I will probably check that out soon enough.

Thanks and cheers

Micquebec

 

[yh125d]

Why dont you tell us what your video card is doing that makes you think it died?

 

[micquebec]

First off, everything was sailing smoothly until yesterday morning.

When I started the computer, there was artifact all over the screen even at the post message(horizontal lines red and blue) and the lettering was illegible (mostly unintelligible characters).

Needless to say, It never made it to windows in this state and reboot . After 2 or 3 times of this, the screen went blank.

After a retry, there was no artifacts, only a blank screen with nothing else.

After that, I gave up for now and waited a couple hours. I then reseated the card, trying different connectors, to no avail, no boot, blank screen.

I had a spare old PCI video card for times just as this and I am now typing with this card in my computer. Everything works flawlessly but I can't stress test the computer with this card, it's a 2MB S3 trio from 1995...héhéhé

Thanks for the help.

Cheers

Micquebec

 

[yh125d]

Yeah that def sounds like a dead GPU


What brand? it may be under warranty still

 

[Gillbot]

READ THIS

 

[yh125d]

Originally posted by: Gillbot
READ THIS

And before you ask me, I did read to not trust software and to get a DC reader directly in the molexes. I will probably check that out soon enough.

 

[HOOfan 1]

Originally posted by: yh125d

Originally posted by: Gillbot
READ THIS

And before you ask me, I did read to not trust software and to get a DC reader directly in the molexes. I will probably check that out soon enough.

Well if that was the case then obviously the entire concept of the thread topic is moot...because the linked thread clearly states to TRUST NEITHER.

 

[Modelworks]

Without a meter , trust the bios more than any software.
The reason is that the bios was written for whatever chip the board uses to measure voltages. Software is generally generic and assumes the board is using a default connection for the monitoring chip so it could be reporting the wrong info.