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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 3037556" data-attributes="member: 924">While playing The Sims 2 tonight, I had the game minimize and a I get a popup saying something like "Nivida Sentinel has detected that the video card is not getting enough power, blah blah blah, and is lowering settings to prevent problems".Crud, I think, but I turned off my computer and decided to clean the dust out and make sure all the connections are okay.  And I so I rebooted, and started up the Sims 2 again.  And boom, again I got the message. So again, I open up my computer, and this time I started checking voltage of the little plug in bit.  Sure enough, 12V, which is what I think you want. So I close up the computer again an thing about worrying about it tomorrow.<s>This time I got the message upon boot up (several of them, actually). So blah blah, opened it up, this time took the card out, blew out the dust, put it back in.</s><s></s><s>Still got the message upon boot.</s><s></s><s>So I'm stumped.  The obvious thing would be the power supply, but checking the plug, I did get 12V.  Is there a program that measures the voltage coming out of the card slot itself, vs the voltage coming out of the plug?</s><s></s><s>Could it be something else? The video card (or motherboard)?</s>Grrrrr, I am a great big doofus.  Opening it up once more to check the readings again (after learning that there should be a 12 V & 5V off that plug and I had only checked the 12V), I noticed that I forgot to reconnect the Molex plug to the card. So that solved my problems with the error message upon boot-up.Now I will have to play the Sims 2 to see if I still get the error. (Which I would, but it takes ages to load)</blockquote>

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