Ok. So I don't know if this is the best place to ask but I am at my wits end and couldn't think of anywhere else to go. I have a GA-7DPXDW-P Giga-byte mobo with dual AMD Athlon MP 2200+ processors. I have 4 256mb ddr dimm's, a radeon 8500 128mb, 1 32X cd-rw, 3 120gb pata hdds, 1 200gb pata hdd, and numerous system fans. Powering this thing is a 680W Thermaltake PurePower monster. This is the third psu i've tried in this thing and I can't seem to get the voltages up to where they are supposed to be. No matter how many drives I take out or how many dimm's I take out, I just can't seem to get the +12v, +5v, and +3.3v readouts to get higher than +11.67v, +4.81v, and 3.18v respectively. I've tried the psu's out in my p4 machine with everything but the dual procs the same and the voltages are a little above the mark. My question is what could be causing this. I have tried everything I can think of from unhooking everything to updating the bios. Could there be a jumper somewhere? Could there be a bad capacitor? Maybe the +12v power connector to the mobo has a pin not connecting? I even started the computer without the +12v line connected and the +12v readout dropped to +11.41v. The problem continues when I can't get all the hdd's to spin up and the cd-rw drive won't work...no matter what. It will barely read and it will never write. (power calibration error) This is supposed to be a server with the 4 hdd's and 1gb of ram but when a 680W psu can't power it all there is definetly something wrong.
Please oh masters of the universe and everything...help me with suggestions or shotguns.
p.s. - sorry for the long post
Please oh masters of the universe and everything...help me with suggestions or shotguns.
p.s. - sorry for the long post
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