Your voltage ranges look ok except for the 3.3 especially if you have that
set for 3.5.  When I set my system to 3.5, it really shows it running at
3.5.

I think you said this in intermittent?

I have very similar system except I have a 550 running at 770 and have no
problems at all but in the abit newsgroup, alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,
there have been many people with similar problems.  A few have a board with
faulty capacitors ,I believe, which is a known problem for abit in early
model be6-2's. The newsreader that I am on doesn't store messages very long
but if you search the news group you should find some information.  It was
discussed there about 2 months ago.  As I remember though, they couldn't
boot at all with a Geforce installed though.

Have you tried a different video card for a while to see if that is your
problem?

I have seen one suggestion to take the fan on the Gforce and run it's lead
to a motherboard or power supply lead instead of taking the power off the
card.

Another good place to look is http://home.earthlink.net/~strayman/BE6II.htm
.  there is a faq there with a lot of troubleshooting info on start up
problems.

Ben Moore


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Nussbaumer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 11:02 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Interpreting multimeter to Power Supply


> Hi all,
>
> You may or may not have seen another post I submitted regarding boot
> problems with my Abit BE6-II motherboard.  This has led me to test the
> power supply in my computer.  Could someone tell me what the numbers below
> mean for my power supply.  Can I conclude that the supply has not gone
> bad?  What should the ranges be?
>
> Please note the I/O Voltage under the BIOS section below.  Under Softmenu
> III Setup it is set to 3.50 V but it seems out of spec.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> Bill Nussbaumer
>
>
> When I use a Radioshack multimeter set to DC Voltage I get the following
> results.
>
> Same through a wire attached to a hard drive and two case fans as it is
> through a wire connected through both CD-ROMS and the floppy drive :
>
>         Red Wire:  Steady 5.10 V
>         Yellow Wire:  Steady 11.97 - 11.98 V
>

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