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gokusgrill

Jan 11 2006, 02:45 PM

my computer recently was doing random restarts and after trail and error i thought it to be the power supply. after i time i said "what the hell" and flipped a switch on the back from 115V to 230V and everything works fine now. .....what did that do? lol

Ste

Jan 11 2006, 02:54 PM

What country do you live in?

If you lived in Europe, I could imagine if it had been on 115V.

tnactim

Jan 11 2006, 02:57 PM

First off... are you in the Uk? Cuz if not, TURN THAT SWITCH BACK RIGHT NOW! What that switch does, is it basically selects whether or not your using american volt/amps, or european volt/amps. If you set it to the incorrect place, it can damage your motherboard.

:edit: lol, beat me to it, ste

DevilMB3017

Jan 11 2006, 03:24 PM

QUOTE(tnactim @ Jan 11 2006, 05:57 PM)

It's volts and Hz more so then the amps, really...

oblivescence

Jan 11 2006, 03:50 PM

i have had psu's that stopped working, i flipped the switch to 230, then to 115 and it worked again. hope thats what you did.

gokusgrill

Jan 12 2006, 05:56 AM

i live in america and when i bought the power supply it was on 115V i just never thought to look at that. after a month or so now i was getting restarts so i flicked it over to 230V would it have done any damage being underpowered? also sense i live in america 230V is what it should be at right?

Savan

Jan 12 2006, 06:04 AM

no, 115V

115=America
230=Europe

gokusgrill

Jan 12 2006, 07:04 AM

ok its back to 115V but why would it have restart problems at 115V and when i put it to 230 be fine?

mainly i had to turn my overclock off when i returned to 115. on 230 i could keep the 10% auto overclock my asus option gives me.

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