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John Leister <MuggySphere@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> Rod Speed wrote
>> John Leister <MuggySphere@hotmail.com> wrote

>>> I just did a voltage check on my motherboard
>>> and I'm wondering if something has gone wrong
>>> because they seem to vary a lot around the place.

>> No, nothing is wrong, just the crummy A/D used to measure them.

> By A/D I assume you mean analog digital converter.

Yep, whats used by the motherboard to show those voltages in the bios.

> And I did use a multimeter

So what did you mean by 'they seem to vary a lot around the place' ?

I assumed you meant that a particular voltage varys quite a bit over time.
The values shown in the bios do that. With a decent multimeter, they dont.

> > You'll find if you use a real multimeter with a max and min
> > capability, the actual voltages dont vary anything like that.
> >
> > > Motherboard in question is an MSI  KT2 Combo
> > > CPU is an AMD Athlon  XP2000+
> > > 128mb  SD ram
> > > 20 gig seagate HDD
> >
> > > Here is the list of voltages and I am just
> > > wondering if they are all within normal tolerance
> > > for this particular CPU and system.
> > >
> > > +5.0v   = 50195v
> > > +12.0v = 110984v
> > > -12.0v = 11.661v
> > > -5.0v   = 5.077v
> > > Vcore  = 1.600v
> >
> > Yeah, those are fine.

> Thanks
>