Drivers for P4M900, VT8237A  

Well hello again.


Today I installed a brand new power supply unit.
It's been running Prime95 (http://imageshack.us/a/img580/5643/84294068.png) for almost 4 hours now and so far so good, no frozen screen no blue screen, nothing.

What is really frustrating me are these numbers: http://imageshack.us/a/img836/8203/96760990.png

They are not ok, or are they? :S
They are different. I've been told Everest is more accurate.

Anyway...
I'l leave it running Prime95 overnight. It shouldn't freeze.


Hope you had a good weekend :)

Well apparently not a good unbranded one, still I don't see how it works fine with other people's equipment and not with this computer.

I'll wait until Friday and replace this with Seasonic or Codegen.


Thanks again for your help! :)

So this morning I had the PSU tested. I had it tested at a local store with a voltage tester connected directly to the unit. All numbers were just right.
Just in case, I tested it as well in my old desktop computer (I currently own a laptop). Numbers were okay as well according to HWiNFO.

Before going crazy I gave a call to a technician hoping he would give me advice as I mentioned I would buy something from him. I told him everything I did and he suggested to check the capacitors which might have gone bad, besides other hardware. I followed his advice and couldn't detect anything; not surprised keeping in mind I have an untrained eye on this matter.
He did mention it's not uncommon where I live to have this kind of problems, giving the high rate of humidity we have in this seaside city; and I do recall hearing something like this, somewhere sometime I don't remember.

So I checked several websites and forums, including this: Bad Capacitors: Information and symptoms (maybe you're interested)

To sum up: this might be the cause of these problems.
I really don't feel comfortable dealing with this, so I'll see what I can learn in order to fix it. Otherwise I'll do what I hate the most which is having the unit revised by someone I don't know.


So this might be the end of this thread, I think. I don't know what else to do if it is not this.


I just can't express how thankful I am for your help. Hope I can repay that somewhere along the way.

Regards

Well I had it checked by two people and I was told it is the southbridge that is rising temperature.
Honestly I don't know if I should believe or not, but I think I just ran out of tools to check that myself.

I guess I should find a brand new motherboard with this old socket and replace it.


I want to thank you very much for your help and the time you took to write in this thread.