How to change 12V setting?

CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
edited July 2003 in Hardware
I installed a new CPU heatsink yesterday, and decided I'd check out what temps I got.

So, I installed ASUS Probe, and took a look at the readings.

The problem is that my +12V reading is 13.44V instead of around 12V. The monitor was peeping at me with all sorts of warnings, sending me into a panic.

What does this mean, and how can I lower the voltage a bit??

I looked through the mobo manual and found jumpers for all sorts of voltages, but couldn't seem to find and relating to the 12V one.

Help anyone?? :confused2

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  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Where did you read those 12V readings?
    The motherboard has resistors so eventual overvolting shouldn´t happen. Or, the psu can be wrong. Too much anyway. What board is it and what psu is it? How does that probe work, can it read voltages as well as temperatures?
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    The board is an Asus A7V266-E.

    Could be my psu, it's a cheapo generic one... I'm saving up for a silent one.

    Not sure how the probe works, but the manual says there is some sort of chip on the mobo called the Asus ASIC System monitor controller, that has a hardware monitor.

    Here is a screenie of the probe...

    (Oh, and the moitor says ok at 13V because I upped the acceptable range from 10% to 15%)
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Is it possible to read it in the bios?
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    I looked in the bios and it said 12.7V
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    use a multimeter and check it @ a molex connector. that's the only reliable way to tell for sure what it is.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    12.7 to 13.44 is a lot of difference. It´s got to be that probe that shows wrong. With a normal power supply and a normal load of 12 volt things in a pc, 13.44V isn´t possible.

    Just to test, what happen if you install motherboard monitor and read it from there? Im not saying its better, i just want to see if there is a third value. To be frank, you dont have to be worried at all, it just reads it wrong. Remove the alarm for that voltage and it wont bug ya at all.
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    I installed motherboard monitor, and it gave me a reading of 12.7V.

    I still get 13.44V in Asus Probe, so I've adjusted the threshold so that it doesn't peep at me all the time.

    Thanks for the help.
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