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MBM is reporting my +3.3v rail at 2.75v. My computer runs fine but this seems a little low.
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+3.3v rail
- Thread starter NeverSnake
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If you really did have a rail that low your RAM wouldn't function and your computer wouldn't work. Always check voltages with a digital multimeter for accurate voltage measurments. MBM sometimes can't be trusted to deliver accurate readings so you have to do them yourself. Just poke a multimeter prong into the back of the motherboard connector (the orange wire) so that it touches against the metal contact. Use the black lead from the multimeter on a ground pin on a molex or on a black wire on the motherboard connector.
If you really did have a rail that low your RAM wouldn't function and your computer wouldn't work. Always check voltages with a digital multimeter for accurate voltage measurments. MBM sometimes can't be trusted to deliver accurate readings so you have to do them yourself. Just poke a multimeter prong into the back of the motherboard connector (the orange wire) so that it touches against the metal contact. Use the black lead from the multimeter on a ground pin on a molex or on a black wire on the motherboard connector.
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the fact that its not a real rail also contributes to the inacuracy of software monitoring vs the hardware checking with a voltmeter.
so as the person above said do a physical check with a multi
so as the person above said do a physical check with a multi
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Do you have a Epox motherboard? Epox uses that sensor input to monitor Vmem, not the +3.3v rail.
