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James Bolton

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    like to build and work on pc systems

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  • Computer Specs
    Amd Phenom II X6 1090t
    Foxconn a7da-s 3.0
    800gb 500gb hard drives
    Liquid cooling with Dual 80mm radiators (upgrade to 120mm soon)
    600w power supply for Mobo
    300w power supply for fans, pumps, dvd-rw, hdd's

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  1. I finally got a asus m5a97 motherboard now my voltages are holding my lights "led's and cold cathodes" are brighter and my ups now says im only pulling 368watt and running cooler/quieter. before it said i was pulling 649watt !! and it was only a 600w power supply that leads me to believe my old foxconn motherboard must have had a short somewhere causing my excessive power draw, and causing my voltages to fluctuate if that is possible. and yes i did check the 3.3, 5, 12, volt rails with my dvom, but i used the bios to get a rough idea before checking them with the dvom. I dont think onboard video or anything could pull that much power correct me if i may be wrong about my findings. NEVER GOING TO BUY A FOXCONN MOTHERBOARD AGAIN!!!
  2. i borrowed a 400w power supply from a friend and plugged it in and the voltage in the bios when i can get there is now fluctuating verry badly on vcore going from 1.002v to 1.699v it also wouldn't boot windows or linux and half the time wouldn't even post, so i tried the power supply on an old am2 board and it was stable so guess im getting a new board
  3. i went to the nearest tech store but didn't have the money to buy a 320w "biggest they had & not p4 compatible" power supply for $110 waaaay over priced im probaly going to order one off the net, the only old componet in the computer is the power supply, ive been buying parts for quite a while and slowly upgrading from my old hard ware the foxconn mobo and ram is about a month old the first two weeks was crazy talking to foxconn about bios issues "bios showed my cpu as a amd x2", finally they sent me a new bios chip for it for the aggervation ill probally never buy foxconn again! only got it because it was on sale 50% off
  4. sorry A7DA-S 3.0 amd phenom II x6 1090t black edition 6gb kingston ram 800gb and 500gb hdd asus lightscribe dvd-rw 2 12" cold cathode's 2 120mm led fan's 2 80mm led fan's custom watercooling 6 l/m pump 2 80mm rad's (soon to be upgraded to 120mm rads) with dual bay 5.25 waterfall res 600w antek power supply (3 years old) + 300w hipoint power supply just for pumps fans etc
  5. recently my computer became slow and sometimes i would get a overflow error on the hypertransport when i first fired up my rig, so i made sure all my settings were default and it still it was unstable and started freezing in windows randomly so I checked my settings in the bios and went into system monitor to check temperature and voltages and here is what i found. cpu temp 42'c (wont show anything other than 42'c unless above that limit dumb foxconn mb ) fan speed 1050 rpm and the strange stuff cpu core varies between 1.220v to 1.512v constantly changing dram voltage stayed mostly at 1.848v nb core voltage varies between 1.292v-1.308v hardly ever changing +3.3v varies between 3.1v-3.5v +5.0v varies between 4.852v-5.193v +12.0v varies between 11.296v-12.325v the last three voltages depending on how long it has been running when cold on a fresh start they are stable then they begin to climb and after an hour start to drop back off again! the cpu core voltage is what is worrying me because it fluctuates wildly at first start up! is this normal or power supply or motherboard issue I was thinking i was overloading my 600w power supply so I decided to hook up a 300w power supply to just the fans, water, pump, hard drives, lights, dvd drive, and let the 600w only power the motherboard and a small relay for kicking the other power supply on and it did help speed up the system alot but still getting freezing and errors at boot ive been working on this system for 3 months because i dont have the money to just go out and buy all new parts at once so the main questions is, is this normal voltage variances or something else? is this a power supply or a motherboard issue?
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