What's wrong with my PSU???

[Rickson Surya]

Bro and Sis, anyone please help me...

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see that Red indicator?

what's going on with my PSU (on the 3rd Rail) ?

 

[shevanel]

nothing but how do you get designs on your taskbar

 

[Lazzer408]

Use a volt meter not software.

 

[Rickson Surya]

@shevanel
nothing??? still scare me with that indicator. hopefully my mobo doesn't blow up Hahaha...

like my taskbar? hehe.. here is the download link http://rapidshare.com/files/278057967/45.Themes.for.Win.XP.2009.rar.html lots of themes, including kung fu panda, hehe....

 

[Rickson Surya]

@Lazzer408
I don't have volt meter, but i will find one for testing.

 

[shevanel]

well dude, what other hardware do you have?

 

[Lazzer408]

You are only .07v out of ATX2.0 spec. I highly doubt your motherboard, cpu, or gpu would be damaged because they have their own regulation. I had a psu pop a harddrive once but it was caused by a piece of metal that got into the supply. The output rails of a psu typically have a coupled output inductor that is used to inductively couple the 5v and 12v rails. What this means is if the 5v is close to where it should be the 12v isn't far behind.

Motherboard-based voltage monitoring has a/d converters to sample the voltages and convert it to a digital value to be read by software. I find them highly inaccurate in almost all cases. A voltmeter will give you your answer.

Specs.

+5 VDC ±5% (±0.25 V)
−5 VDC ±10% (±0.50 V)
+12 VDC ±5% (±0.60 V)
−12 VDC ±10% (±1.2 V)
+3.3 VDC ±5% (±0.165 V)
+5 VSB ±5% (±0.25 V)

 

[RejZoR]

Distribute the load on power cables better. Hooking up all the power hungry components on one cable (on one that is coming from the PSU directly) is not a good idea.
Auto power distribution should work among different rails, but i don't trust that all that much.

 

[Zubasa]

Nothing looks wrong with your PSU, but the way you connect your components.
Looks like the +12V3 has no load.

 

[Rickson Surya]

@shevanel
Intel E7200
Mobo Gigabyte EX38-DS4
DDR2 800 Kingston 4GB (2 2GB)
VGA HIS IceQ3 3870 512MB
HDD Seagate 1TB
2disc drives
1soundcard creative audigy value
1 Wireless LAN

That's all i have.


@Lazzer408
Thanks for the information. I check the voltage from BIOS , +12V is arround 11.98 , Maybe that's the software problem hehe....

@RejZoR
Thanks for the suggestion. I do distribute all the components.

 

[Rickson Surya]

@Zubasa
According to the spec, the +12V3 is connected to mainboard. i think it has load.

in early time, the P-Tuner doesn't give such a surprise indicator.

 

[shevanel]

i was thinking there was no load also

 

[Rickson Surya]

@shevanel

I'm Kind a confuse right know

anyway, if it really doesn't have load, could it damage my hardware (psu, mobo, ext.) in long term?

 

[shevanel]

If I were you I'd just check voltages in bios. if they read fine then go on with your life. If youre really worried, borrow a psu from a colleague or get a volt meter and check true voltages.

 

[Rickson Surya]

@shevanel
i've check the voltage from BIOS, everything looks just fine.
so bad i don't have a volt meter

but i think the information from BIOS will be more accurate than the software, right?