• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

PSU Problems

F

fowen

Gawd
Joined
Dec 28, 2004
Messages
984
I have two issues.

I am trying to build a HTPC. I am running a 3800+ with a MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum mother board. I have a Antec 500W NeoPower2 that I was going to use for the power supply. I could not get the machine to turn on using this PSU or a 430W Antec PSU taken out of a machine running a old AMD Bartom 2400+M but it ran fine on a old 300W Antec PSU. A friend pointed me to this article - http://www.silentpcreview.com/article28-page5.html

How can I find out if this affects me?

Also, during the troubleshooting process I attached a tester to the 500W Antec. All the readings looked fine but the 5VSB ran fluxuated between 4.7V and 5.9V. Should I just toss this PSU?

Thanks!
 
Anyone?

Should I just throw the Antec 500W with the fluxuating 5VSB setting out?
 
It's possible that you are encountering that issue, although I personally can't really comment on it since I haven't experienced anything similar. I recommend that you try the PSU in a different computer and see if it works there.

As for the fluctuating +5VSB rail, that could simply be because the PSU doesn't have enough load on it. I suspect that if it is functional and if it is used while being loaded by an entire PC, the voltage would be in spec.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top