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Hi all,
I have a fairly old thermal take psu semimodular 700w which stopped working after going away for a week and switching off my pc from the mains. When I got back and switched the mains back on and my 8 years old pc didn't boot and not sign of activity. I thought it was the mobo and replaced the battery. I plugged and old 400w psu and pc working ok using onboard graphics. I tried the paper clip test on the PSU and seems fine. I bought a cheap PSU tester which I received today and there is low reading of 4.5v for the 5v which seems to be the problem because is making the tester to bip. The rest of the voltage are good.
My question is what components and lead are using the 5v?
Do I need to replace the PSU or any work around?
PSU runs a phenom II 4 cores @ 3200 (phenom 550 unlocked susessful to 4 cores) and ATI 6870 on a asrock 790x.
Thanks
I have a fairly old thermal take psu semimodular 700w which stopped working after going away for a week and switching off my pc from the mains. When I got back and switched the mains back on and my 8 years old pc didn't boot and not sign of activity. I thought it was the mobo and replaced the battery. I plugged and old 400w psu and pc working ok using onboard graphics. I tried the paper clip test on the PSU and seems fine. I bought a cheap PSU tester which I received today and there is low reading of 4.5v for the 5v which seems to be the problem because is making the tester to bip. The rest of the voltage are good.
My question is what components and lead are using the 5v?
Do I need to replace the PSU or any work around?
PSU runs a phenom II 4 cores @ 3200 (phenom 550 unlocked susessful to 4 cores) and ATI 6870 on a asrock 790x.
Thanks
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