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Bad PSU?

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purg3d

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Just bought this PS a few weeks ago from a guy on ebay. Came with a case, and for $25 shipped I can't exactly complain. The voltages are as follows, courtesy of Epox's own temp monitoring software:
VCore: 1.792v
Vagp: 1.536v
+5v: 4.784v
+12V: 12.950v
Vio: 3.504v
VDimm: 2.688v
Vbat: 1.376v
5VSB: 4.993v

At first glance, I see that +12v is way out of safe spec. It fluctuates from 12.8-13.0v.

-Are there any other voltages that are out of whack?
-Would this have any effect on optical drives not writing, and hard disks being painfully slow and often corrupt?

My hard disks were believed to be the culprit, so I was in the process of replacing when I came across this issue. Now I'm looking at the motherboard (Which suffered for years from being poorly taken care of.. I'll leave it at that), it's IDE controller, cables, RAM, everything.

Oh, and for the record, it's a POWMAX 400w. That's probably my problem right there. I get what I paid for-- problems.
 
If its a powmax, im suprised its still working. Dont read voltages via software, its not accurate.
 
wee96 said:
If its a powmax, im suprised its still working. Dont read voltages via software, its not accurate.
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haha, I figured.

Yea I've come across that response quite a few times, I just don't have a multimeter. Although I think your response takes care of that.

To the FS/T forum I go - Thanks.
 
purg3d said:
haha, I figured.

Yea I've come across that response quite a few times, I just don't have a multimeter. Although I think your response takes care of that.

To the FS/T forum I go - Thanks.
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Ack! I dont think your gonna get any takers on a powmax psu, seriously they are that bad.
 
Send it to me. I'll replace it for you and then blow the Powmax up on the load tester. ;)
 
Haha, I wasn't actually planning on selling it to anyone, wouldn't want to give anyone a chunk of this problem unless it was for a good cause.GURU yhpm commin' :eek:
 
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