My voltages are what?!

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Hi all,

So over the last few months my machine has been randomly rebooting with Kernel Stack blue screens. So I replaced my RAM and the problem disappeared. Now tonight it crashed again and I thought I would check the temps (as it's been a fairly hot day :D).

I downloaded SpeedFan and it told my CPUs were idling at 60c or so, the graphics card was a similar heat and the ambient was 38c (my study is pretty warm right now). Under load (if you can call WoW a load), the former both rose to about 75c and the ambient to 44c

At the bottom, it had my voltages and they read like this:

vcore1: 1.31v
vcore2: 1.94v
+3.3V: 3.38v
+5v: 4.97v
+12v: 0.32v
-12v: -16.97v
-5v: -8.58v
+5v: 5.08v
vbat@ 3.33v

First off, is SpeedFan an accurate means of testing voltages and temps? Secondly, what little I know about voltages isn't much help to me - are these readings acceptable? Thirdly, are those temps acceptable? I don't recall it being that hot when I built the machine in '07.

Thanks for any assistance offered,

Luw


For the record, my machine is a Conroe 6400, on a Gigabyte DS3, with two new 1g sticks of Kingston RAM, and an 8800 GT 512mb which is about 8 months old.
 
Speed fan isn't very respected, but your voltages are an absolute mess.
If your processor had 1.94V running through it, it would be dead. The +12V reading is a touch strange, as is the -12V. I hope for your sake that speedfan has got things wrong.

I believe everest is better at reading voltages from within windows than speedfan. Cpu-z will give you vcore but no others.

Temperatures look fine however
 
As JonJ mentioned - they're are very odd readings.

Sit in the BIOS for a while and monitor 'some' of the above voltages in 'PC Health Status' (or whatever your mobo names it.)
 
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I just ran Everest (or whatever it's replacement is called) and it came up with far more acceptable figures for all the voltages - within 2 or 3% (although it offered nothing for the negative ones). I'll have a look from the BIOS and see what it says there. I seem to recall thinking I needed a non-crap PSU when I built the machine (I got advice here :D) so I went with something middle of the road.
 
Luw said:
I just ran Everest (or whatever it's replacement is called) and it came up with far more acceptable figures for all the voltages - within 2 or 3% (although it offered nothing for the negative ones). I'll have a look from the BIOS and see what it says there. I seem to recall thinking I needed a non-crap PSU when I built the machine (I got advice here :D) so I went with something middle of the road.
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It was'nt a Hiper was it?
 
pastymuncher said:
It was'nt a Hiper was it?
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Are Hiper bad PSU's?

I am having serious problems with my new build, and I am using my PSU from my old dual core athlon rig, which is the Type M Hiper 630w model...

It was perfect with my 8800GTX and AMD dual core rig, and it was also fine after I got my GTX280, but I put an i7 rig together a few weeks ago, and it has been extremely unstable... I really hope it is the PSU that is causing my problems!!

I will find out in a couple of days though...

@ the OP, I wouldn't worry to much about your voltages being messed up in SpeedFan, I get the exact same thing with Everest and OCCT, however I borrowed a voltmeter from a friend and tested the PSU's rails with that, and the 12v and 5v are fine... so it was just the software that was giving inaccurate readings....

Like the others have said, you should check them in your BIOS to see what it says there....
 
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