Asus V8460 voltage problem on asus P4S8X mainboard

[Ruffy]

I have just assembled a new Pc and everything is working properly exept for these 2 things:

1. The Power Fan Speed is too low in the Hardware monitor of
the Bios ( around 1660 RPM ).

2. The voltage supply for my Asus V8460 128 MB card isnt
working properly. The Asus Smartdoctor gives this message
on the voltage supply :

(in red: 1.58 V )

"Your VGA card voltage 3.3 is out of safe bound.
Motherboard doesnt supply reliable 3.3 voltage.
Please contact with motherboard manufacturer for help
(pffff just try it)."


Heres is a List of the Hardware:


Powersupply : 350 W
Mainboard: Asus P4S8X
Chip: Intel P4 Northwood 2.4GHZ
Graphic-card: Asus G4 V8460 ultra/deluxe 128MB
Soundcard: Creative SB Audigy
RAM: Samsung 2700 512MB DDR

Bios : Award Medallion Bios v6.0
ASUS P4S8X ACPI Bios Revision 1003A ( dunno if this
important )

OS: Win2k professional



I have read that a lot of people had problems with the asus p4s8x mainboard with win2k or xp, but mostly with memory,installing windows, or Vcore problems.

If anyone can help me with my problems please write me here.
I am not very much into Hardware. I can correctly assemble a computer, but thats it Please help me if you can.


I am sorry for my bad english ( i am from Bavaria )
I am sorry if a similar post was already made, but i checked a lot of threads and couldnt find any solution.


Thank you for reading this. I hope someone can help me.


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[Crashman]

Easy answer? The card is an AGP4x 1.5v card, it doesn't use the 3.3v line? 1.58v is fine for a 1.50v card.

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[Ruffy]

Thank you but I know that already. Now the agp 4x is activated but I have the same message as before only with 1.5 V . The Smartdoctor says that the mainboard doesnt supply reliable 1.5 voltage.

 

[Crashman]

Probably because it's "more than 10% off". But it's still OK d00d, in fact, it's probably set higher by the motherboard by default. My last Asus board ran the 3.3v line at 3.45v by design.

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[Ruffy]

Ok well I hope its ok...

Still doubts are nagging me


But I dont know what to do with the Power-supply fan-speed. Should I buy a new Power-supply ?

 

[Crashman]

Asus has been known to bump the default 3.3v level up slightly to aid in stability. A lot of their boards had a jumper selection for 3.3v (stock), 3.45v, 3.6v, with 3.45v being the factory setting.

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[Ruffy]

Then why does the smartdoctor show me a voltage of 1.58 V ?


But anyway I will check the jumpers.

THX

 

[Crashman]

AGP can operate at either 3.3v (official) or 1.5v (official). Now, if you take 3.45v which Asus often uses by default for the 3.3v line, and divide by 3.3, then multiply by 1.5, you get 1.57v. That's close enough to 1.58v in my book.

You see, 1.5v is taken off the 3.3v line.

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[Ruffy]

Ok Thanks Crashman. Everything is running perfectly well...even Smartdoctor isnt complaining any more about the 1.58 Voltage after I re-installed it.

The only Thing that bothers me, is that the System chrashes from time to time when I play SOF2....but that may be the new Nvidia drivers.....