Skuzzy have YOu ever seen this?

[wrag]

I was having some strange problems.

CPU = AMD 64 X2 4200+
mem = 2 Gig Mem
Vid = ATI 1600 pro  (AGP)
MB = ECS KV2
Chipset = VIA K8T800 pro
SB = VT8237
OS = WinXP

Would sometimes reboot during AH or some of my other games.

Checked everything I could think of.......

Couldn't seem to find the problem.......

Did some checking of BIOS!

One of the voltages required was coming in LOWER then the MB required, and this was causing some strange problems (2.8 i think? was coming in as low as 1.7)!

This Included a wierd vid card prob... the video would just stop working and the monitor would go black and the power light start blinkin like it was on standyby or not getting a video feed.

SEEMS My UPS was under powered in ONE of the plugins!!!!!!!!!!!

Moved the plug to a different plugin, it has 4,and checked BIOS for voltages.

Correct voltage in everycase!

ALL GOOD now!

Haven't had any problems with anything since!

BTW my system is liquid cooled.  Using a EXOS2 on the CPU, NB, MEM, and VID card.

Average temp rarely gets to 93 degrees F  It's running at 75 F or 24 degrees C right now.

The air coming out the back of the comp case is actually COOL?!?!?

[Krusty]

Low voltages can be dangerous as much as high voltages, I've been told.

I had a PSU that was undervolting by a large margin, and it did a lot of bad things. It would hard-lock my PC in AH at about 1 hour intervals. I thought I traced the culprit back to a bad integrated NIC. Disabled that popped in a PCI NIC and problem went away.

Only, later when I figured the problem out I got a good PSU, had no problems with the integrated NIC!

Can also hurt performance if it's for the CPU or the video card, as they aren't getting enough juice etc etc.


Funny that your UPS was doing it, though. I'd see if the warranty was still good.