azzey
10-22-2006, 06:24 PM
I'm having a tad of trouble with my recent build.
After ten or so minutes after a cold boot, I get an alarm and a message telling me that my PCIe voltage has exceeded the threshold. The threshold range is 1.35v - 1.65v, and the voltage 'should' be 1.5v. When the alarm goes off, the voltage is up at 1.65 and then climbs to 1.66.
If I turn off the computer, wait 5 seconds, and turn it back on, the problem is gone until the next cold boot.
My question is... how big of a deal is it, and what can be done to fix it? Also, what is causing it? The PSU? The motherboard? The graphics card?
System specs:
Abit KN9-SLI, skt AM2
1GB OCZ DDR2 RAM
eVGA nVidia GeForce 7900 GTO
80GB WD SATA Hard drive
NEC DVD+/-RW drive (dying...)
The case has very good cooling--CPU is 24 degrees and case is 25 at idle, during gaming the CPU goes up to around 40 and case to 27. Graphics card is around 29 idling and about 45 during full load. Room temp is 20-22.
Here is the Abit EQ system monitor...
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2672/pcievoltagekb5.png
Any suggestions? ;)
I found this (http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=112118) after a quick Google search
After ten or so minutes after a cold boot, I get an alarm and a message telling me that my PCIe voltage has exceeded the threshold. The threshold range is 1.35v - 1.65v, and the voltage 'should' be 1.5v. When the alarm goes off, the voltage is up at 1.65 and then climbs to 1.66.
If I turn off the computer, wait 5 seconds, and turn it back on, the problem is gone until the next cold boot.
My question is... how big of a deal is it, and what can be done to fix it? Also, what is causing it? The PSU? The motherboard? The graphics card?
System specs:
Abit KN9-SLI, skt AM2
1GB OCZ DDR2 RAM
eVGA nVidia GeForce 7900 GTO
80GB WD SATA Hard drive
NEC DVD+/-RW drive (dying...)
The case has very good cooling--CPU is 24 degrees and case is 25 at idle, during gaming the CPU goes up to around 40 and case to 27. Graphics card is around 29 idling and about 45 during full load. Room temp is 20-22.
Here is the Abit EQ system monitor...
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2672/pcievoltagekb5.png
Any suggestions? ;)
I found this (http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=112118) after a quick Google search