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I just upgraded my PC to a Soyo KT-600 Dragon Plus v2.0 with an AMD
Athlon-XP 3200+ CPU. I also bumped my PSU up to 400W. Unfortunately,
it has zero stability. If I go ten minutes without a crash or
spontaneous reboot, I'm lucky.
The Soyo Hardware Monitor (Smartguardian) shows no problems with
temperatures, but three of my voltage values are in red:
+3.3V 2.67V
DDR 2.92V
AGP 1.13V
If I'm reading it right, 3.3V and AGP are low, and DDR is high. I've
tried disconnecting drives and removing add-on cards, swapping the
DIMM's, and changing lots of memory speed settings in the BIOS.
Nothing fixes these numbers.
First off, could these numbers be the cause of my stability problems?
I don't know the thresholds for them. Secondly, what can I do to
normalize them? Is the PSU maybe bad? That's unlikely since this is
the second one (the first was a 300W) that's done the same thing. The
motherboard? Could it even be the CPU?
I'm stumped. Any direction here is greatly appreciated.
I just upgraded my PC to a Soyo KT-600 Dragon Plus v2.0 with an AMD
Athlon-XP 3200+ CPU. I also bumped my PSU up to 400W. Unfortunately,
it has zero stability. If I go ten minutes without a crash or
spontaneous reboot, I'm lucky.
The Soyo Hardware Monitor (Smartguardian) shows no problems with
temperatures, but three of my voltage values are in red:
+3.3V 2.67V
DDR 2.92V
AGP 1.13V
If I'm reading it right, 3.3V and AGP are low, and DDR is high. I've
tried disconnecting drives and removing add-on cards, swapping the
DIMM's, and changing lots of memory speed settings in the BIOS.
Nothing fixes these numbers.
First off, could these numbers be the cause of my stability problems?
I don't know the thresholds for them. Secondly, what can I do to
normalize them? Is the PSU maybe bad? That's unlikely since this is
the second one (the first was a 300W) that's done the same thing. The
motherboard? Could it even be the CPU?
I'm stumped. Any direction here is greatly appreciated.