Hi, I have Corsair 500W HX PSU, and I've been experience problems with my GPU so I wanna make sure it's not my PSU. How do I check it? I tried GPU-z but couldn't find anything. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks and bye.
I highly doubt its the PSU, the Corsair units are very good. What sort of problems have you had? As for the 12V measurement, I use Speedfan or Everest.
Uh-oh, umm thanks, I dunno how to read my +12V rail, but is it me or beside my +12V rail it started showing something.... bad? http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=idunnoxa5.jpg it shows 11.35V, that's bad isn't it. omg omg omg.
From previous thread...(meaning sammoris you are a stalker) the guy said "Heres the facts, the 8800 gts draws 330+ watts at idle and up to 550+ watts under load. Most people who have purchased the 8800gts generally went with a 500 watt power supply believing that to be safe, and for the most part it is, however, running your power supply at its limits can cause it to degrade in performance over time, eventually leading to instability. I suggest downloading a few applications like speedfan and GPU-z to check your 12+ v rail, it should never dip below 11.9 nor should the 5v be less that 5v or the 3.3 less than 3.3. If you see this, its an indication that your PSU is beginning to fail." Also, can this be a bios issue? I've been told several times to update my bios, but everywhere it said that it's shouldn't be done unless in a bad situation etc --> I mean my Intel Thermal Analysis and other tools shows that my E6750 @ 2.66GHz has a temperature of 18-20 degrees C (idle) that's pretty low, imo.
Omg, first replace your 8800GTS you knew that for sure, now the so called best Corsair seems to suck and dips down to 11.3 while playing CoD4, I dunno what to do, and this is suppose to be a good computer.... My old P4 @ 1.8 GHZ which is 5 years now.... I checked its +12V rail and it showed 12.04V, checked it's +5V rail and showed 5.11V, life sucks. Can there be a correlation between this and my UPS? Cuz I have to wait a couple of seconds after I turn on my UPS because if I press my PC turn on button right after the UPS turn on, there will be a slight delay, like a second before it turns on which doesn't feel healthy. I plugged it into the wall plug instead and still shows 11.35V, is this a perfectly acceptable excuse to force my dealers to get me a new one? Yeah. ,..... "oh by the way, that PSU somehow damaged my gfx as well so you better lob in the new 8800 as well.... omg" omg omg. Everything breaks around me for some reason, everything good, but everything crappy is healthier than it should be.
If it helps I do Stand-by often, and my motherboard is soo good with them that it turns everything off, except it still acts as a stand-by. Anyways, absolutely sure not a BIOS? Please keep a record of all the questions I've asked you so far And yeah thanks, that is if you are not posing.
Corsair do make some of the best PSUs, but the occasional lemon slips in, if every single PSU they'd ever made worked faultlessly nobody would buy anything else, ever, it'd be a revelatioN! The UPS could potentially cause an issue, but corsair units are supposed to line clean beforehand, so even if they don't receive the right voltage, they'll just draw more current to make up the same figure and keep the DC voltages right. I'd return the unit as a precaution, I'm thinking that should solve the issue.
I received an email from him, he said that programs are very unreliable as they read their stuff from the motherboard (my cpu temperatures are also weird, unusually cool) so he linked me to http://www.motherboards.org/articles/guides/1487_6.html so ok, I guess I should try that...
Hey I just checked the "4-pin peripheral power" - and it said 4-pic +12V connector in the manual. Hmm, it was a mix of small red and black cables. The readings of DC Voltage w/ Mastercraft showed 12.11V which is way different from 11.35V. I am not sure cuz this 4-pin went to my Case fan and I am not sure if it really is +12V rail one, but does this mean my bios is outdated? EDIT: My sata II Power connector is barely even connected with the wire cuz wire doesn't click in and keeps falling off, I wonder if it could cause some graphical shtuff.
Eugene: That's the best way of doing it, but it's not very practical to do it when the PC is being used... As an accuracy test, it should do. 12.11V is fine, I guess the program is just wrong, you can't argue wth hard evidence. The hard disk is a problem, but it's not a problem that would cause your symptoms. Guess we're pointing the finger at the graphics card now then!
Hey, I tested it with Fluke and got 12.14V from my 4-pin connector that went to the...fan. I am just wondering, am I actually suppose to measure those fat cables for failures or just this minor fan cable, cuz I don't think my PC uses those tiny wires. Also, I am getting this Freeze where no mouse is seen, ctrl+del+alt doesn't work and caps/num/scroll lock buttons don't light up so a definite freeze so I have to restart. After I restart I am prompted with my Motherboard BIOS Logo, American Megatrends and it says "CMOS Settings Wrong, press F1 blah blah". That's that, now I skip that process and it sometimes freezes as the windows logo comes up (XP). Then I restart again and it says "start windows properly etc." Also when I turn on my PC it says "Checking NVRAM" --> is that..... I wonder if this relates to the GPU or anything at all. Thanks for your DECENT replies (yes I am forcing you to read my long boring messages)
you are not going to believe this... I play a strategy game, my screen freezes, I restart, monitor receives no signal. I turn off, wait 10 mins, monitor receives no signal and I hear this loud GFX fan noise. Hmm, so yea I guess I should... RMA my graphics card now eh I have no choice.
Well something's certainly had it, and your PSU readings are fine. Start with the GPU as its the easiest to replace. A fluke meter, wow, the money must run well in your household!
Thanks for your replies. Hey I have a question there is this slot on my motherboard for power called "ATX 12V" which is near the CPU. Is that the one I was suppose to be checking? Cuz I couldn't do that because my PC wouldn't power up if I tried doing that. It's like this square headed wire with 4 entrances which have square or kinda rounded square shapes. The 12V I checked before went to Antec 900 fan. And please answer this: CMOS what is that, could this bios be causing all these problems? (or motherboard)
All I meant by that was make sure it's plugged in. The 12V rail can be measured from any connector that has a yellow wire going to/fro it.
I discovered another thing - maybe this isn't even a graphics card problem. You see when every PC turns on, they give a beep of the status of the peripherals. The thing is, ever since I bought my PC, it never beeped on the boot. It can mean - the guys did a lousy job at assembling (highly possible, when I arrived they realized that the button on the case wasn't working so they had to reassemble it) or my P5K is faulty. The dealer tells me that he'd rather I contact the company directly but no, that's not what I am doing. I will travel 80km to their dealership and give my entire PC to them saying "umm something's wrong and you're suppose to fix it," So yep. Alright that's that.
