# Voltage failure / out of range on my AGP card - problem?

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**Created:** [April 28, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voltage-failure-out-of-range-on-my-agp-card-problem/401983 "2007-04-28T20:04:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voltage-failure-out-of-range-on-my-agp-card-problem/401983/1 "2007-04-28T20:04:27Z")

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I have a five-year-old Dell workstation with a 460W power supply. I recently added a second processor to it, and upgraded the video card to a newer model.

Now, whenever the system boots, it gives me an error message saying “Alert: previous voltage failure.” In the BIOS event log, it says “Voltage out of range: AGP slot”.

The system still works fine, and games run fine, with no stability or quality problems. The GPU and CPU temperatures are normal.

I assume that the power supply is not strong enough to power both CPUs and my power-hungry video card - but as long as everything is running fine, should I worry? Am I slowly doing damage to some poor voltage regulator somewhere?