Asheron
07-18-02, 01:38 AM
If you have been getting random reboots and have been suspecting it to be the +5.00 rail you are probably right.
My system specs Before with a low 5 volt and reboots:
Antec 1030 Case
1700xp Locked running at 11x153
350 watt Dual Fan Enermax
Abit KR7A non Raid
40G Maxtor 7200 rpm
2 Sticks of 256 2100 DDR Crucial
Volcano 7 Base with Delta Fan
ATI Radeon 64Mb
My system specs After with my 5 volt at 5 volt still testing:
A 200 watt AT Psu for fans (8 years old still working)
second 250 watt ATX PSU for everything else.
I bought the 350 watt Enermax with dual fans and i thought it was a great investment which still is but after some overclocking and tweaking i started to get random reboots when my +5.00 would get too low. I'm not sure how low it got but when I play my online game for about 30mins I would hear a click and my system would reboot.
Idle it would be +4.92 to +4.85 with load it would get down to +4.81 and probably lower before it rebooted.
I didnt want to spend more money and get something more powerful and I'm not savvy enough to mod the Enermax PSU...I dont want to die...but I did come across 2 old power supplies laying around.
One was an AT 200 watt PSU with a grey switch from my very first computer I ever had and the second was an ATX 250 watt PSU which was from a bad Bios Flash :( My girlfriend wasn't impressed.
So what I did was use the AT PSU to power all my fans which is presently sitting outside the case. I want to put it in my Antec tomorrow after some modding. It has its own power on switch which is great. I'm glad i kept it around after all these years.
And I installed the Atx PSU to power up everything else. To my surprise my +5.00 is at +5.00. I have yet to do some overlocking but I like what I see so far.
I dont know what to do with my Enermax now. I guess I can keep it as a backup or maybe return it and hope it is a better one.
I tried the Dual psu idea with the Enermax but the +5 was still below what I wanted.
Anyone else have trouble with Enermax and a similar computer setup as mine? And is it safe for my second PSU to be out on my desk...?
My system specs Before with a low 5 volt and reboots:
Antec 1030 Case
1700xp Locked running at 11x153
350 watt Dual Fan Enermax
Abit KR7A non Raid
40G Maxtor 7200 rpm
2 Sticks of 256 2100 DDR Crucial
Volcano 7 Base with Delta Fan
ATI Radeon 64Mb
My system specs After with my 5 volt at 5 volt still testing:
A 200 watt AT Psu for fans (8 years old still working)
second 250 watt ATX PSU for everything else.
I bought the 350 watt Enermax with dual fans and i thought it was a great investment which still is but after some overclocking and tweaking i started to get random reboots when my +5.00 would get too low. I'm not sure how low it got but when I play my online game for about 30mins I would hear a click and my system would reboot.
Idle it would be +4.92 to +4.85 with load it would get down to +4.81 and probably lower before it rebooted.
I didnt want to spend more money and get something more powerful and I'm not savvy enough to mod the Enermax PSU...I dont want to die...but I did come across 2 old power supplies laying around.
One was an AT 200 watt PSU with a grey switch from my very first computer I ever had and the second was an ATX 250 watt PSU which was from a bad Bios Flash :( My girlfriend wasn't impressed.
So what I did was use the AT PSU to power all my fans which is presently sitting outside the case. I want to put it in my Antec tomorrow after some modding. It has its own power on switch which is great. I'm glad i kept it around after all these years.
And I installed the Atx PSU to power up everything else. To my surprise my +5.00 is at +5.00. I have yet to do some overlocking but I like what I see so far.
I dont know what to do with my Enermax now. I guess I can keep it as a backup or maybe return it and hope it is a better one.
I tried the Dual psu idea with the Enermax but the +5 was still below what I wanted.
Anyone else have trouble with Enermax and a similar computer setup as mine? And is it safe for my second PSU to be out on my desk...?