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Jul 27, 2005, 09:07 PM // 21:07
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Florida
Guild: DVDF
Profession: Me/N
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Low 3.3 voltage on motherboard
I have been having the usual reboot problems with Guild Wars. Sometimes it would work for hours, sometimes for a few minutes before rebooting.
Now my computer reboots even when I am not in Guild Wars. I have noticed in the bios that instead of having 3.3 volts, I have about 2.7 volts. Is this a power supply problem? I've used this 500 watt power supply for about 1 1/2 years with no problems until I installed Guild Wars. AMD Athlon 64 3000+, not overclocked w/Stock Cooling Fan, Arctic Silver thermal paste Sapphire Radeon 9800XT 128 mb Asus K8ne-deluxe Mobo Nforce 3 chipset Windows XP sp1 (also tried with SP2) 1 gig Kingston memory onboard sound Arctic cooler w/arctic silver thermal paste on video card To further confuse the problem, Guild Wars runs perfectly on my other computer which is: AMD Athlon Barton 2600+, overclocked to a 3100 Asus A7n8e-deluxe nforce 2 chipset Windows 2000 Pro ATI Radeon 9600 w/256 mb 512 mb Kingston memory on board sound Anyone have any suggestions? |
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Jul 27, 2005, 09:29 PM // 21:29
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Underworld Spelunker
Join Date: Feb 2005
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software will not screw up your voltage as the power supply is too dumb to know it is being diddled  it should still be under warranty so check with tech support on the power supply 
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Jul 27, 2005, 09:42 PM // 21:42
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Academy Page
Join Date: May 2005
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The powersupply is "probably" the source of the problem. I had the same problem as you with a P4 2.26 Ghz.
I had 2 identical computers (one for me, one for wife...heh). Mine pooped out on me, got a reading of 1.37v on channel 1 and 7 of the ATX. Wifes computer had 3.3v steady. My machine wouldn't even POST, hers was just fine. To test your theory, swap the powersupplies for a bit on your two computers and see if the rebooting goes along with the switch. If it does... problem solved The good thing about it? Powersupplies are cheap, I bought a 430w Antec to replace my dead one for $35 on sale. That was over two years ago. EDIT: As Loviator suggests, check the warranty also. They may RMA the powersupply for you and all it'll cost is a few bucks shipping! |
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