Mother board issues

Nic Miller · 17 Apr 2007 at 10:05

I have the Asus P5N32-E Sli 680i motherboard, E6600 CPU, 2Gb GeIL RAM, BFG 8800GTX graphics card – I have installed the AI Probe that comes with the motherboard to monitor voltages and temps etc.

It comes up with a warning that 1.2V HT has a voltage of 1.5. Is this a problem? Why would it run at 1.5V? What is 1.2V HT? In the BIOS, all the voltages are set to auto.

The second error is the fan speed – the chassis fan is running at about 900rpm – it was a preinstalled fan on a Silverstone Temjin TJ-09 case – it is set to 100% in the BIOS on duty management cycle – whatever that means! Should it run this slow?

Many thanks for any help!

Nic

Nic Miller · 17 Apr 2007 at 13:14

Anyone?

Cheers!

Nic

WJA96 · 17 Apr 2007 at 14:52

If you're getting warnings and everything is on AUTO then RMA it. It's not normal.

If you search about these boards do seem to be giving lots of people headaches as they seem to be very popular amongst novice overclockers, and no-one is getting decent performance from them.

On paper it's a good solid board, but it just doesn't seem to be straightforward to work with, the way most of the cheaper boards are.

If you can, return it and get an ASUS P5B, P5N-E SLi (If you need SLi), Abit QuadGT or Gigabyte P965-DS3P as at least with those you'll get good support.

Nic Miller · 17 Apr 2007 at 16:22

Is the board knackered then? Can't I just run it with 1.5 volts? Could I try setting it manually lower? Could it just be a monitoring problem?

Not happy if it is knackered as it took me an age to build this system.

Cheers

Nic

enigmo · 17 Apr 2007 at 16:32

It pays to bench new systems to make sure everything is working before squeezing everything into a case and neatly cable-tying everything off

As for the fan, 900rpm does seem very slow, but is it a large fan that's meant to be slow anyway? Brand/model #?

Nic Miller · 17 Apr 2007 at 17:11

The fan's a 120mm one - but the other 6 x 120mm fans which I have set the speed on are running at 1400 rpm ! Worried it may take off!

The 1.2V HT running at 1.5 volts is well within tolerance isn't it and shouldn't cause any probs? The settings for it go all the way up to 2 volts?

Are there any other programs that test voltages to see if that is the problem?

The warning is only an arbitarily set 10% - it doesn't actually mean anymore than it shows a warning when it gets to 10% - you can set the value to whatever you want.

Anyone seen this before?