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Fitz · Guest

I posted here and a couple other forums about a Soyo motherboard and not
being able to get it to accept memory in more than one DIMM. Finally gave up
and did this instead:

Gigabyte K8N Pro w/AMD64 3200+
1 GB (2X512) Kingston HyperX CL2 PC3200 DDR
2 WD SATA Raptor HD
Radeon 9800 Pro (OEM 128 MB)
Plextor 708A DVD+/- R/RW & CD RW
Apacer embedded 7 in 1 Card Reader
Crystal Fontz 634 LCD
FrontX multimedia + firewire bay
Kept the case and Enermax 465 VE power supply

So, before all this arrives, is there a reliable way to test my power supply
to insure it wasn't the cause of my original problem (Soyo Dragon +
literally fried, and same board (spare, used) wouldn't accept 2nd DIMM of
RAM). Running one stick of RAM, I was able to boot, and MBM5 said all
voltages were w/i 5% of nominal....good enough, or do I need to check
further?

Thanks,
Fitz

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Guest · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:04 am Post subject: Re: Testing power supply?

You would have to buy an ATX Power supply Tester. Another thing you
might try is a program that comes with a motherboard that monitors the
voltage levels of the power supply voltage lines. Sometimes you can
save the results over time and it can display a graph to tell you if
it is fluctuating.

However, the RAM could be bad also.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:38:26 -0900, "Fitz"
<yogamom@pobox.mtaonline.net> wrote:

jasmith · Guest

You shouldn't have trouble w/the Enermax. Compusa and PC power and cooling
sell ATX power testers,cerca $10US, if I recall correctly.
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