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"John Leister" <MuggySphere@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3F818357.32CA5C3E@hotmail.com...
> Rod Speed wrote:
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> > John Leister <MuggySphere@hotmail.com> wrote in
> > message news:3F810178.A8F99B54@hotmail.com...
> > > 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.\
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> I was a bit concerned at the difference between the positive and negative
> rails

Thats irrelevant. The -12 and -5 rails arent used for anything much
anymore and the -12 particularly is VERY non critical voltage wise.
Its basically just used for the negative swing on the serial ports now.