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I had built a computer a while back with all new components. It had some quirks like the DVD drive would not respond sometimes. It seemed like the power supply was not powering the device. Fast forward to today.
I had ordered a brand new power supply for use in another system, but I remembered the problem with the computer I had built before and decided to check it out again. Downloaded Hardware monitor and I was surprised to see the 12v at 7.5x- I swapped the power supply with the new one I have and then ran the same utility and I was getting similar voltage @ 12v
How likely is it that two brand new power supplies could both be bad. I am going to have to look for a third to throw in there for now.
Is there anything outside of the power supply that would cause such a low 12v line?
The first power supply was a 500w thermaltake and the second was a 600w corsair- both were brand new.
The system itself is:
p5kpl asus board
e3300 (I think) 2.5 Celeron CPU
1 optical drive
1 hard drive
onboard video and PCI wifi card
I had ordered a brand new power supply for use in another system, but I remembered the problem with the computer I had built before and decided to check it out again. Downloaded Hardware monitor and I was surprised to see the 12v at 7.5x- I swapped the power supply with the new one I have and then ran the same utility and I was getting similar voltage @ 12v
How likely is it that two brand new power supplies could both be bad. I am going to have to look for a third to throw in there for now.
Is there anything outside of the power supply that would cause such a low 12v line?
The first power supply was a 500w thermaltake and the second was a 600w corsair- both were brand new.
The system itself is:
p5kpl asus board
e3300 (I think) 2.5 Celeron CPU
1 optical drive
1 hard drive
onboard video and PCI wifi card