...In Which I Demonstrate How Little I Really Know About Hardware
Normal service will now be continued with a rambling post about computers.
Anyway, I was computering away last night, when I hear this peculiar offensive beeping sound. The TV, maybe? No... Something my phone is doing that I still don't recognise? No... Henry, the mild mannered janitor? No...
Ah, of course, it's the PC speaker. I almost never hear it. That's a hardware monitor alarm, that's what that is. It means that one of the fans has stopped or the CPU is melting or something. Mystery solved!
And so, I stop what I'm doing, open up the hardware monitor app and notice (to the accompanying sound of annoying beeping) that the 5V Standby voltage, theoretically +/- 10%, has crept up to 5.60V. It has always been on the high cap, but not anymore. So I shut down, turn of the PSU at the switch, and retire to consider.
This morning, after a healthy night of being entirely off (for the first time in a couple of years, I admit), it's up to 5.65V. This is slightly alarming. If it was CPU voltage I'd be much more alarmed, it's true, but I now can't help but suspect that although the system runs just fine, particularly if I fiddle with the monitor to adjust the upper boundary for that test, the thing is slowly burning out the motherboard. It's now an obsolete motherboard of course, but that would be Very Annoying.
Hmm.
So... Time to replace the PSU, I guess?
Anyway, I was computering away last night, when I hear this peculiar offensive beeping sound. The TV, maybe? No... Something my phone is doing that I still don't recognise? No... Henry, the mild mannered janitor? No...
Ah, of course, it's the PC speaker. I almost never hear it. That's a hardware monitor alarm, that's what that is. It means that one of the fans has stopped or the CPU is melting or something. Mystery solved!
And so, I stop what I'm doing, open up the hardware monitor app and notice (to the accompanying sound of annoying beeping) that the 5V Standby voltage, theoretically +/- 10%, has crept up to 5.60V. It has always been on the high cap, but not anymore. So I shut down, turn of the PSU at the switch, and retire to consider.
This morning, after a healthy night of being entirely off (for the first time in a couple of years, I admit), it's up to 5.65V. This is slightly alarming. If it was CPU voltage I'd be much more alarmed, it's true, but I now can't help but suspect that although the system runs just fine, particularly if I fiddle with the monitor to adjust the upper boundary for that test, the thing is slowly burning out the motherboard. It's now an obsolete motherboard of course, but that would be Very Annoying.
Hmm.
So... Time to replace the PSU, I guess?