is it normal for a power supply to have the FOLLOWING readings... -12 reads a 7 nd a -5 reads a .65 while the +12 is a 11.85 and the +5 is a 4.88 ? do those sound good. my 3d games keep crashing to windows and i cant figure out what is going on.
thanksi dont think your - 12 should Read +7....

but i dont know much about power , but IM prety sure it should be a lot closer to a -12.....

i think a few volts either way is ok, but if you negitives are reading as positive either you read it wrong or , its not right at all

What are you using to measure these voltages? A correctly calibrated professional-grade voltmeter?im using speed fan, and they actually arnt positive, its negative, i just typed it as a givenThis topic caught my interest. I also have speed fan installed and I've wondered about the -12V reading. It shows "-0.18V", a much greater deviation from the -12V than your -7V reading. I don't know whether this is anything I should be concerned about, although it seems quite odd. I can also access my BIOS and get a reading there. I'll check that and see whether it's consistent with speed fan.

You .65 reading for -5V also looks weird, doesn't it? Hmmm, so does mine. My system shows a postive 2.84V for the -5V rail, as I believe they're called.
I just accessed my BIOS and went to the screeen that shows voltage info. It simpy shows no such thing as -12V or -5V. Maybe that explains why speed fan provides weird data for those items; it can't find any valid info in my hardware and, THEREFORE, just generates freaky data.I guess speed fan might make something up although it seems to me no data would be better than fake data. HOPEFULLY someone else may add thier two cents as wellpcj240ross.......
If you want a decent app to monitor those things as well as provide a lot of other info on your system ...try out PC wizard 2006 .....
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_91_14191.html
the voltage readings it provides are pretty accurate .

dl65 I have just noticed you have posted more TODAY that you ever had before and it seems to me that the only reason you are posting is for some reason you’ve decided that i am the most terrible thing that has ever happened.

I however have an opinion of my own directed at you it goes like this.

An non-productive poster who pops up every blue moon , with the sole intent to discredit another poster that he knows little about , with out posting any relevant information other than malformed insults , has got to be the most retarded type of person there is.

I would like for an Admin to look at your recent slander of me, but I don’t believe that they would consider it to be offensive, but it is harassment
Nothing uses the (-) voltages anyway, so why bother reading them. The +12, +5, and +3.3 should +/- 5% of optimal.Quote

An non-productive poster who pops up every blue moon , with the sole intent to discredit another poster that he knows little about , with out posting any relevant information other than malformed insults , has got to be the most retarded type of person there is.

I would like for an Admin to look at your recent slander of me, but I don’t believe that they would consider it to be offensive, but it is harassment