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Ok, long story short......see my sig.
Last night: nvidia sentenal(sp??) notes power to your GPU(S) is low.....yadda,yadda.
I get graphics artifacts and the computer blue screens: error x000 000 000 612 I think.
I smell acrid antifreeze and shut down. I looked at my temps before I shut down and they were just fine.
I rebooted and easily loaded into Vista, but got "the power message" and blue screened when I tried to go into a 3D application.

Did my PSU, a brand new (6 weeks old) Ultra 1000W X3 go south???? Ive never seen that message before, Ive never had a PSU fail,ever. Especially a brand new one.

I put the GPUs in a different computer individually, and they work just fine.
I sent a message to Ultra RMA, but is it possible to cook a PCI-e connection and have the PSU still power up the computer????? I'm curious as this has never happened to me.
How else would I test the PSU??
 
Its always possible to get a lemon, sounds like thats what you got. A lemon.
 
Do you not have a simple multi-meter that you can check the voltages at the end of the PCI-e with?
 
Did you ever not get the message with that power supply. I had an issue with my Silverstone ST1000. Same message with 3 different power supplies. Silverstone said there was an incompatibility with Nvidia sentinel (the part that monitors power). I had also heard that this was happening to some other brands of supplys off of Nvidia's forums. My rig works just great with a different 1000W powersupply (BFG) now.
 
brokenarrow03 said:
Did you ever not get the message with that power supply. I had an issue with my Silverstone ST1000. Same message with 3 different power supplies. Silverstone said there was an incompatibility with Nvidia sentinel (the part that monitors power). I had also heard that this was happening to some other brands of supplys off of Nvidia's forums. My rig works just great with a different 1000W powersupply (BFG) now.
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I have never seen that message before last night.
My computer components, when placed in another set, all work flawlessly.
I did not ask the Ultra guys specifically today about what you note, but in my original email to them I spelled out specifically what had been going on.
In my case, however, this message pops up like machine-gun fire in rapid succession every time I go to 3D and the performance, which was excellent up to that point just sucks now.
I mean, HL2 EP1 is not demanding by any stretch, and I just had finished EP2 the hour before with no problems.
Thanks for the information though.
Ultra issued me an RMA on the spot. I have had absolutely no problems with the PSU up to this point.
 
2uantuM said:
Regardless, Ultra has a reputation.
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That statement would make at least an ounce of sense if Ultra were an actual manufacturer, but given that they use several different OEM's, my response is WHA?? :confused:
 
Andyson makes the Ultra X3 line if I'm not mistaken.
I read quite a bit before I bought this PSU, and the X3 line seems quite good, and functions to a reasonable 80% at least under load most of the time.

I ran my system for 2+ hours hard tonight and it functioned well, same everything; except for one brief momment when I got those damn artifacts again, as soon as I qiut out of my application.....UT III i think, I saw that damn message about inadequate power.
I reloaded and away I went, no further problems......

I think its an intermittant power thing. We'll see when the RMA arrives.:eek:
 
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