Well it looks like I have a failing Antec PSU. Basically my 5V line is
never more than 4.55 and averages 4.49 or almost 10% out of spec on a 5%
spec PSU. Waiting now to see if Antec agrees.
What got me started was a MBM alert about +5V line 5% out of tolerance,
combined with recent happenings of system rebooting itself once on power
up (power up, boot, windows, reboot, windows, ok). Occasionally I'd get
the boot menu on second boot asking if I wanted safe mode, etc...
Yes, the system is a XP-M that's been OC'd and I had chalked it up to
something with heat (too cold to work at start up? lol) but nothing
other than 5V power has changed in a year. I clocked back the multiplier
to 11x and verified all settings as baseline (200Mhz, 1.6V core, 2.6V
DDR, etc...) in the BIOS. Still the PSU is 4.49V as I type this. While
the system has not ever rebooted during several hours of gaming, it has
frozen when left idle overnight the past week or so a few times.
Certainly not thrilled with the idea of the system being down for
replacement PSU. Nor am I thrilled with getting a replacement from Antec
for rear I am yet another victim of an Antec failure. Worse this is not
a week I can afford to buy another PSU =<
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