I hit the speed bump: 7 y/o 350w and stopped reading.
Replace that power supply. Replace it with an El Cheapo 500w unit and you'll be fine. Should set you back no more than $50.
While voltage trace that are out of spec by 8% on any ONE of the rails is a warning something aint right, voltages are only a value of the electropotential difference (how high the waterfall is). It doesn't tell you how wide it is.
I had a prollem 5 1/2 years ago where the system was truly flakey. Worked sometimes, but other times all sorts of errors reading files, file is corrupt, BSODs. This was Aug and it was hot and nearly windless from S. I had ambient temps about 95 degree F. Hot but dry.
We had a little line of instability come through. That's a front aloft, i.e., if there's sufficient surface heating to cause a rising parcel of convection to run into the lifting zone aloft, you may get a TCU out of it that may rain. On this particular day, it gets cloudy, a frew drops fell, wind shift from S to W and steadily blows in through the W living room & bedroom windows and out the S bathroom window of my apartment. Temps drop by about 8 deg F.
Wouldn't you know it, everything ran fine after things cooled down slightly. Ran fine for awhile, and definitely not after things warmed up again. My PSU was about 7 years old at the time. A 350w Tiger PSU. Virtually the last OEM Micron component of my original PC I bought in 1999 for almost $4000.
I was at the end of my rope and as a Hail Mary I ran out and picked up an El Cheapo 400w PSU on sale for $25 and everything was cool. 'Ceptin the voltage trace was showing -8v on the -12v rail, and -10.5v on the -5v rail. I also picked up a white box DVD RW on sale for $15. I was a happy camper for about 4 to 6 weeks. When the mobo suddenly went FOOMP!
Literally. I heard the high whine of the old time flash bulb capacitor charging up and the system died. SO I replaced the mobo with a hand-me down only to discover when the mobo died it took the DVD-RW with it.
I took the DVD-RW and the PSU back to Microcenter where I bought it. They found nothing wrong with the PSU. BUt they claimed their test equipment couldn't test the negative voltage rails. They RMA'd both components. I walked out with an upgraded 350w Ultra (el Cheapo unit) for $35. I installed it and everything was cool. For about 3 years.
I started getting wonky problems and funky BSODS. Voltages were rock solid w/in 3% and only one was near 5% out of spec. I spent months trying to dx the issues. I had people telling me I had a virus. I said no way: I'm running Comodo Internet Security. One day I went to Microcenter on a lark and bought a 500w Eagle PSU on sale for $30. That was like 1/2 off. I haven't had a problem since.
THANX RAY. I just ordered the new ps. The joy of computing; spend hours checking things to come back to the very first thing you suspected but think your just guessing !!
OH and I got the error code
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OH and I got the error code from wu 168260917 and then clicked on the TASK NAME info.
Rob
I hit the speed bump: 7 y/o
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I hit the speed bump: 7 y/o 350w and stopped reading.
Replace that power supply. Replace it with an El Cheapo 500w unit and you'll be fine. Should set you back no more than $50.
While voltage trace that are out of spec by 8% on any ONE of the rails is a warning something aint right, voltages are only a value of the electropotential difference (how high the waterfall is). It doesn't tell you how wide it is.
I had a prollem 5 1/2 years ago where the system was truly flakey. Worked sometimes, but other times all sorts of errors reading files, file is corrupt, BSODs. This was Aug and it was hot and nearly windless from S. I had ambient temps about 95 degree F. Hot but dry.
We had a little line of instability come through. That's a front aloft, i.e., if there's sufficient surface heating to cause a rising parcel of convection to run into the lifting zone aloft, you may get a TCU out of it that may rain. On this particular day, it gets cloudy, a frew drops fell, wind shift from S to W and steadily blows in through the W living room & bedroom windows and out the S bathroom window of my apartment. Temps drop by about 8 deg F.
Wouldn't you know it, everything ran fine after things cooled down slightly. Ran fine for awhile, and definitely not after things warmed up again. My PSU was about 7 years old at the time. A 350w Tiger PSU. Virtually the last OEM Micron component of my original PC I bought in 1999 for almost $4000.
I was at the end of my rope and as a Hail Mary I ran out and picked up an El Cheapo 400w PSU on sale for $25 and everything was cool. 'Ceptin the voltage trace was showing -8v on the -12v rail, and -10.5v on the -5v rail. I also picked up a white box DVD RW on sale for $15. I was a happy camper for about 4 to 6 weeks. When the mobo suddenly went FOOMP!
Literally. I heard the high whine of the old time flash bulb capacitor charging up and the system died. SO I replaced the mobo with a hand-me down only to discover when the mobo died it took the DVD-RW with it.
I took the DVD-RW and the PSU back to Microcenter where I bought it. They found nothing wrong with the PSU. BUt they claimed their test equipment couldn't test the negative voltage rails. They RMA'd both components. I walked out with an upgraded 350w Ultra (el Cheapo unit) for $35. I installed it and everything was cool. For about 3 years.
I started getting wonky problems and funky BSODS. Voltages were rock solid w/in 3% and only one was near 5% out of spec. I spent months trying to dx the issues. I had people telling me I had a virus. I said no way: I'm running Comodo Internet Security. One day I went to Microcenter on a lark and bought a 500w Eagle PSU on sale for $30. That was like 1/2 off. I haven't had a problem since.
Moral of the story: drink your Ovaltine.
THANX RAY. I just ordered the
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THANX RAY. I just ordered the new ps. The joy of computing; spend hours checking things to come back to the very first thing you suspected but think your just guessing !!
Rob