Buddies power supply bad?

[Shadow_Storm56]

Just curious but my buddy is having computer issues and I was looking at his voltages and comparing them to one of my brand new power supplies. His 12v rail is running 13.6 and his 5v is 5.8. That are also slightly jumpy... very slightly but still. Comparing to my new one with voltages stay flat line perfect. Normal or bad is my question?

[LienusLateTips]

YES! EXTREMELY BAD

[Shadow_Storm56]

2 minutes ago, JDE said:

YES! EXTREMELY BAD

What do I do?

[LienusLateTips]

Just now, Shadow_Storm56 said:

What do I do?

Change it, as soon as possible. Unless I'm having a brain fart right now, that's outside of ATX spec, which I consider to be a minimum for all PSUs. 

 

If you are in the US, there's a sale for the CX450 for $21 right now.

[kb5zue]

Hopefully he can get an RMA for it.

[Stefan Payne]

17 minutes ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

Just curious but my buddy is having computer issues and I was looking at his voltages and comparing them to one of my brand new power supplies. His 12v rail is running 13.6 and his 5v is 5.8. That are also slightly jumpy... very slightly but still. Comparing to my new one with voltages stay flat line perfect. Normal or bad is my question?

What PSU are you talking about??

[Shadow_Storm56]

2 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

What PSU are you talking about??

It's  a 600w evga psu

[Stefan Payne]

Just now, Shadow_Storm56 said:

It's  a 600w evga psu

Software Readings or Multimeter?

 

If Multimeter: Pray.

If Software: Get Multimeter

[tp95112]

Where are you getting these readings and also what is the power supply?

[Shadow_Storm56]

7 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

Software Readings or Multimeter?

 

If Multimeter: Pray.

If Software: Get Multimeter

Aids 64

[Mackay42]

29 minutes ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

It's  a 600w evga psu

EVGA's PSU Warranty page Hope this helps. If paranoid, disconnect and get one to tide him over until he can get it replaced.. never hurts to have a spare PSU around for testing or failure replacement. 

[Guest]

Since his PC has AIDS, get a multimeter.

 

Also, EVGA makes 32^7 different PSU lines.  Which one are we talking about here?

 

[LienusLateTips]

18 minutes ago, jonnyGURU said:

Since his PC has AIDS, get a multimeter.

 

Also, EVGA makes 32^7 different PSU lines.  Which one are we talking about here?

 

They make at least 10¹³ 80+ Bronze lines. Get your facts straight  /s

[Shadow_Storm56]

38 minutes ago, JDE said:

They make at least 10¹³ 80+ Bronze lines. Get your facts straight  /s

I have a psu tester that will tell me the voltages direct off the PSU. My question is if the software is correct and it really is this high of voltages in both computers with the psu that both have issues then is it a bad psu? like the one spikes to 13.8v when the cpu is under load. seems really bad to me 

[Shadow_Storm56]

1 hour ago, Mackay42 said:

EVGA's PSU Warranty page Hope this helps. If paranoid, disconnect and get one to tide him over until he can get it replaced.. never hurts to have a spare PSU around for testing or failure replacement. 

Yea I think it's bad. His graphics card he thought had died and I tried everything to get it to work with no luck. Tested if on my pc which has the correct voltages and it runs perfect. 2 psus that are identical both having the same issue makes me think power surge or brown out maybe. 

[Stefan Payne]

46 minutes ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

if the software is correct

Probably not.

That's why many people here are telling you to double check with a multimeter.

That +5V and +12V is out of spec is rather improbable, especially on a group regulated unit.

So get a Multimeter and measure for yourself...

 

Don't RMA before you do because you can't know if the PSU is OK or not.

[Stefan Payne]

2 minutes ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

Yea I think it's bad.

I don't because Software can (and will) read bullshit...

You don't know where on the Board it is measured, you don't know the offsets. It's not calibrated...

 

And the PSU Tester you are talking about is also bullshit because its not loaded. Some PSU can't regulate until there is at least a couple of watt load on it...

[Shadow_Storm56]

9 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

I don't because Software can (and will) read bullshit...

You don't know where on the Board it is measured, you don't know the offsets. It's not calibrated...

 

And the PSU Tester you are talking about is also bullshit because its not loaded. Some PSU can't regulate until there is at least a couple of watt load on it...

Hmm..... well whatever it is both computers have major issues.... this is the only thing I can see that sands out.

[Mackay42]

10 hours ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

Yea I think it's bad. His graphics card he thought had died and I tried everything to get it to work with no luck. Tested if on my pc which has the correct voltages and it runs perfect. 2 psus that are identical both having the same issue makes me think power surge or brown out maybe. 

Glad it's not the video card. I would definitely get that PSU out of the system before it decides if its going down' its going to take other components with it.