Well, now. Out of curiosity, I jumpered the long de-commsioned NEO 380's ATX connector to power it up and measured the rail voltages. 5v, no load - 5.05v 5v, single IDE CDROM - 4.42v Too late to RMA it, I wonder? And it get's better - I'd almost forgotton that i bought and installed ithe NEO at the...

Well, now.

Out of curiosity, I jumpered the long de-commsioned NEO 380's ATX connector to power it up and measured the rail voltages.

5v, no load - 5.05v
5v, single IDE CDROM - 4.42v

Too late to RMA it, I wonder?

A brief update on my Neo 380 which I posted on last year , a unit made in Sep 05. It never gave me any trouble, but the coil-whine I mentioned, although it didn't get any worse, was irksome enough (late-night) that I reinstalled the 300w Nexus a few months ago - and what a relief it was to go back t...

Hi - new here, first post. I've been running a NeoHE 380 since 11/05 in my ageing, but quiet and faithful Asus TUSL2-based PC. It replaced a Nexus NX3000. All good, completely stable except for MBM 5 reporting -5V at -6.13V . A bit weird - the Nexus was within +/- 5%. The fan is quiet (tho' no more ...