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Low Standby (VSB) voltage: dangerous? cause?

Asked by murrayhome in Computer Motherboards, Miscellaneous Hardware, Power Supplies / UPS

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What could cause a BIOS to report Standby (VSB) +5V as 3.66V? (All other voltages seem normal.)   Is it dangerous and, if so, how?  Does it indicate a bad power supply, or could the motherboard be involved, too?  The system is described below.  The low reading is with only video card installed and keyboard attached -- no drives installed yet.

Details: Except for a n intolerably noisy motherboard "OTES" fan, which sometimes required a manual push to start, my 4-year-old system was stable.  The other day I replaced the OTES fan and, while the system was apart, replaced the power supply with a new, larger one; replaced the stock CPU cooler with a Zalman; and replaced the case fan with a new one.  Everything looked good except a low 3.67V for the Standby voltage.  That low reading held both before I had drives installed and afterwards, when I booted Windows and ran the system for several hours.

I RMAd the PSU to Antec and meanwhile installed another Antec TruePower Trio 430.  Again everything looks OK except the Standby voltage, now showing in the BIOS as +3.66V.

So did I get two defective PSUs (from different sources! the first from newegg, the 2nd from ProVantage)?  Or could it be something else?

Pentium 4 XE 3.2 GHz
Abit IC7-MAX3 BIOS rev. 18
Antec Sonata
Antec TruePower Trio TP3-430
4 - 512MB Crucial DDR SDRAM cl. 3
2 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 160GB (on-chip SATA1, 2 and NOT RAID)
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Plextor PX-716SA SATA DVD+-R/RW (SATA3)
Iomega Z250ATAPI (via Serillel2 to SATA4)
ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu CPU cooler
Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP 20"
U.S. Robotics 5610B "Performance Pro" modem
Audigy2 ZS
Iomega Z750USB external
Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB triple interface external, using Firewire
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