3% is prime (& TPB was rated here), 6-10% I thought
was common for ATX 1.x PSU?
It had been skirting 4.7ish for the longest time so I
chalked it up to crap PSU
not thinking it would get worse, duh!
Well these particular Antec's (True Power) are now
infamous for failing within a
year or so due t
j,
I agree. You did get it half right! LOL! The antec is toast.
I know we can bench-race the 3% of the 5v rail (~4.85v).
I will let you win. I change psus when I see the 5v rail reading
4.98v, or the 12v rail reading 11.97v. 5v is 5v and 12v is 12v.
I use the canned asus probe utility. Suppose M
1st boot both would not be there, reboot only the
second missing, then both show
on 3rd boot kind of thing. As far as errors go both
the SATA's threw new bad
sectors daily to the point I was cursing Sleazgate
again as I run over 20hrs of
Seagate DST testing wondering how 2 seagates could be
such
Were the problems consistent, i.e., always the same drive(s) disappearing,
or was it variable depending on the day, phase of the moon, etc. My problems
seem consistent, always the same drive(s) missing or causing a problem.
Jim
> -Original Message-
> From: j maccraw
> I'd be looking for
I'd be looking for sagging power lines based on what I
am going through with my
Antec 480W. Weird reboots, drives not showing up on
reboots, bad sectors
cropping up constantly on 2 new seagate 7200.10's,
etc All traced back to a
sagging 5V line and confirmed by opening the Antec PSU
to find
About a month and a half ago, I related a problem I was having with a new
Western Digital WD7500AYYS 750GB SATA II drive. Transfers to the drive seems
very slow. I moved the drive around between several adapters on 2 different
computers. Finally, I put it in an external drive and it worked fine, so
At 06:41 PM 26/01/2008, James Maki wrote:
I purchased a Western Digital WD7500AYYS 750GB SATA II drive. I installed,
partitioned and formatted. Everything seemed fine, but I noticed file
transfers seemed incredible long.
I'm not sure if they support NCQ - perhaps this is turned on on the
contr
I purchased a Western Digital WD7500AYYS 750GB SATA II drive. I installed,
partitioned and formatted. Everything seemed fine, but I noticed file
transfers seemed incredible long.
Background:
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9 motherboard with onboard SATA consisting of:
nVidia SATA II RAID (4 sockets
