I'm thirsty for electricty

[Tay]

I think I am just going to plug it in and hope for the best. What are my chances of blowing it up?

 

[Tay]

Whew, nothing blew up. CPUZ says the voltage is what I set it at in the bios. Is it a good program to monitor voltage with?

 

[Tay]

LOL, nothing happens when I turn the knob. I am guessing it is the ground?

 

[felinusz]

Sorry for the late reply!


You would need to desolder the VR to check the resistance. I would simply cut the hotpoint wire at the VR, and solder it back on afterwards. You could then cut the ground wire, and replace it with a 3-pin fan plug to make the mod removeable.

LOL, nothing happens when I turn the knob. I am guessing it is the ground?

Are both leads cleanly and fully connected?

How far have you tried changeing the VR's resitance? Depending on the mod/VR size used, overvolts sometimes won't start kicking in untill you've lowered resistance enough - which may take quite a few turns of the VR's adjstment knob. Keep in mind that each half turn of that knob is a fairly small change in resistance.

 

[Tay]

I twisted it 4 or 5 times, nothing happened. I'll try to resolder it, check the resistance, etc.

 

[Tay]

Ok, I re-soldered everything, I even tried a new Potentiometer. Still nothing happens in CPUZ when I twist the knob.



Oh well.

 

[matttaylor]

Try checking the voltage in the boards bios, cpuz might not be reading the changes.

 

[Tay]

Try checking the voltage in the boards bios, cpuz might not be reading the changes.

Yay, it works!



Thank you guys sooooooooooooooo much!