j, I agree. You did get it half right! LOL! The antec is toast. I know we can bench-race the 3% of the 5v rail (~4.85v). I will let you win. I change psus when I see the 5v rail reading 4.98v, or the 12v rail reading 11.97v. 5v is 5v and 12v is 12v. I use the canned asus probe utility. Suppose MBM works good also, but I've problems with much of its' added features. When the psu can not regulate to the stated voltage, it is toast. Perhaps just me. Best, Duncan
At 14:05 03/10/2008 -0700, you wrote:
1st boot both would not be there, reboot only the second missing, then both show on 3rd boot kind of thing. As far as errors go both the SATA's threw new bad sectors daily to the point I was cursing Sleazgate again as I run over 20hrs of Seagate DST testing wondering how 2 seagates could be such junk. No reprieve on that until I swap PSU & have no more bad sectors!. Problems didn't start until I added the 2 SATA's to the 2 IDE's + CD + DVD in the box. Guessing the load was just too much for the poor antec. MBM was telling me my 5V was over 3% out of spec, I've just been ignoring it thinking "false positive on shitty Antec PSU". I was half right, lol. James Maki wrote: > Were the problems consistent, i.e., always the same drive(s) disappearing, > or was it variable depending on the day, phase of the moon, etc. My problems > seem consistent, always the same drive(s) missing or causing a problem. > > Jim > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: j maccraw > >> I'd be looking for sagging power lines based on what I >> am going through with my >> Antec 480W. Weird reboots, drives not showing up on >> reboots, bad sectors >> cropping up constantly on 2 new seagate 7200.10's, >> etc.... All traced back to a >> sagging 5V line and confirmed by opening the Antec PSU >> to find puffed/leaking >> crapola caps from Fujyyu. > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
