My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

[Harvey]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

Watch out for that big red arrow - it looks sharp

[Newbie2]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

That Thermaltake 430W PSU does look a little on the cheap side, but better than a L&C. Teapos are fine in a PSU, and I haven't seen a CapXon cap fail yet in a PSU.

That will do fine powering the VP6.

[gastorgrab]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

New supply is installed and the voltage numbers look almost exactly like the Antec power supply's numbers.

But no wierd noise.

The "2.5v is too higher" message still comes up when enabled. It's obvious that it's not the fault of the power supply.

Here's a question: When you use a new style supply to power a slightly older board could it cause an unexpected voltage levels? I noticed that the ATX standard developed to the point where a certain wire is no longer required (it was dropped from the ATX spec).
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......someone forgot to pack that little red arrow with my new power supply.
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[pvideo]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

Try this site http://www.computergate.com/products...rodcd=BCFDPCUM
They carry the AMD K7 CPU cooler for $7.95 for two. Similar to the one you're showing.

[Newbie2]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

Here's a question: When you use a new style supply to power a slightly older board could it cause an unexpected voltage levels? I noticed that the ATX standard developed to the point where a certain wire is no longer required (it was dropped from the ATX spec).

I've seen some new power supplies missing IIRC the white +5VSB wire on the ATX connector. I have four ATX power supplies like that, and the missing 5VSB wire won't hurt the motherboard at all. They didn't damage my old trusty AOpen AX6BC Slot 1 motherboard (that board came stock with United Chemi-Con caps, wow for a board made in 1999! ).

[kc8adu]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

i put the old via monitor on a customers box today and got the same error including the engrish.
freshly recapped vp6 with tc's modded bios.
its a non issue.

[pvideo]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

Those CPU coolers I mentioned from computergate are $7.95 each or $7.75 each for two or more. They have to be better than the stock Intel heatsinks with the green clips. And I agree, the VIA monitor abnormal voltage warning seems irrelevant and/or wrong.

[dan8139]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

Is 2.5V to do with the RAM (VDIMM)?

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

They didn't damage my old trusty AOpen AX6BC Slot 1 motherboard (that board came stock with United Chemi-Con caps, wow for a board made in 1999! ).

Actually, not that wow. Because back in the late 1990s, motherboards were more likely to use Rubycons.

And United Chemi cons probably were used more.

[gastorgrab]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.




Same thing in ubuntu;


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[PCBONEZ]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

Is 2.5V to do with the RAM (VDIMM)?

No.
On VP6 RAM is 3.3v

2.5v (if it's even used) is most likely for some part of the chipset.

Can't be sure.
Unlike Intel's chipsets, diagrams of VIA chipsets aren't so easy to find.
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[gdement]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

I've seen some new power supplies missing IIRC the white +5VSB wire on the ATX connector. I have four ATX power supplies like that, and the missing 5VSB wire won't hurt the motherboard at all. They didn't damage my old trusty AOpen AX6BC Slot 1 motherboard (that board came stock with United Chemi-Con caps, wow for a board made in 1999! ).

The white wire is -5V, not 5Vsb (that's purple).
I think -5v is only used by some ISA cards (and apparently not many even of those). It's in the ISA pinout anyway.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

The white wire is -5V, not 5Vsb (that's purple).
I think -5v is only used by some ISA cards (and apparently not many even of those). It's in the ISA pinout anyway.

gdement's right.

I've heard mention that some transitional MSI boards (about the time ISA slots were going away) used -5v on the board for something or other. My guess it that they didn't have an ISA slot but the board still had a legacy ISA BUS with some chip on it that needed -5v. (Maybe like a sound chip? - Not sure.)

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[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

Is 2.5V to do with the RAM (VDIMM)?

Unless it's DDR, it isn't, AFAIK.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: My recapped VP6 is acting weird.

I've never seen an Abit VP6 that uses DDR.
Have you?

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