I'm powering 5 HDDs, and a Gigabyte GTS 250OC on a Fatality 550W with no problems whatsoever...Motherboard is an ASUS M2A, with an AMD 5000+ and running 2 gigabytes of Corsair 800 MHZ ram..
the 9800 gtx+ takes up 150-200W alone on standard clocks.
Throw in 90W for my Intel Core 2 Quad
Then add the rest in.
In any case, I also forgot to ask, are you happening to overclock? Could be fluxuating the power levels.
And shame on you for not replacing your old corsair with a new one XD
but anyways, get a average of your 12v rails, 5 v rails, and 3.3v rails. a 5%+/- is acceptable. Anything lower/higher, and you need a new psu. or was it 6%? I think 5%.
but as it was said above, its difficult to remote diagnose.
EDIT: My stats for the sake of arguement.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 2.66GHz per core
4GB (2 sticks) Corsair XMS2 DDR2 RAM @ 800MHz
GA-EP45-DS3R GIGABYTE Motherboard
PNY NVidia GeForce 9800 GTX w/ 512MB GDDR3 RAM
SeaGate Barracuda 750GB SATA, 500GB SATA, 80GB PATA (2x)
LG DVD Multi Drive SATA
Mitsumi Floppy 3.5" Drive
IOmega ZIP 100 Drive
HIS Noise Reduction Card (No electrical Function)
Zonet Wireless N Wifi card
NZXT Tempest "Airflow King" Gaming case (NOT EVO, the previous one thats no longer made)
Corsair 750TX PSU
External 160GB WD Blue Caviar SATA HDD (In Zonet Enclosure)
External Maxtor 30GB PATA HDD (In Metal Gear Box enclosure)
Dual Display Acer/Dell (Acer 22" Dell ??)
Well, I found out the problem yesterday, it was exactly the power supply. Last night it wouldn't boot from the HD, and so I unplugged a fan and the auxillary drives and it worked out alright. I dunno what I'm doing to burn through the PSUs, but it's good to know anyway...
Thanks for all the help!
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' Wrote:Well, I found out the problem yesterday, it was exactly the power supply. Last night it wouldn't boot from the HD, and so I unplugged a fan and the auxillary drives and it worked out alright. I dunno what I'm doing to burn through the PSUs, but it's good to know anyway...
Thanks for all the help!
Wattage, brand, etc?
Quote: So much technical IT stuff...
Maybe just remove the dust from the inside of your PC wink.gif
Although keeping a clean pc is important, I seriously doubt dust was the cause of this issue, unless he has a very bad brand PSU like Diablotek or Xion. Xion fried my mobo (well, almost anyways) and I never heard a single good thing about Diablotek, not even their prices. At least Xion was cheap.
As for choices, if you go high wattage (like 700+), Antec, PC Power & Cooling (very expensive, but top of the line even at 500W), Corsair (again, top of the line at even 500. not the best, but in the top 3), and ThermalTake (lower wattage are not the best). I've heard good things about BFG, and their 550 did great except it jsut wasnt enough power (not the PSU's fault), and XFG is newer, but has great reviews across the board.
At any rate, glad to see you found the issue, and hopefulyl you can fix it with great haste and ease.
I'm powering 5 HDDs, and a Gigabyte GTS 250OC on a Fatality 550W with no problems whatsoever...Motherboard is an ASUS M2A, with an AMD 5000+ and running 2 gigabytes of Corsair 800 MHZ ram..
Its because your running an AMD, They use no power. But also have no performance.
@ bacon, Having the SETA cable next to the wireless card will have no interference, Like its been said before, most likely a SETA cable problem, one of them is most likely bad.
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' Wrote:Its because your running an AMD, They use no power. But also have no performance.
@ bacon, Having the SETA cable next to the wireless card will have no interference, Like its been said before, most likely a SETA cable problem, one of them is most likely bad.
little too late. He already confirmed it was a problem with the PSU (Power Supply Unit)
Not to sound rude, but also its SATA, Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. ^^;
AMDs use anywhere from 30-60W, and they are capible of some excellent processing, not to mention are much more solid when it comes to overclocking. Intel may have better performance out of the box, but in my opinion are more tinker toyish.
If you have some SATA I (old school) cables, they dont have the best shielding agaisnt RF, but by all means better shielding than PATA cables. SATA II cables incorporate excellent shielding, and is one of the reasons why they're suited for External uses (Such as E-Sata)
EDIT: Also, for this comment;
Quote:Really...??
I'm powering 5 HDDs, and a Gigabyte GTS 250OC on a Fatality 550W with no problems whatsoever...Motherboard is an ASUS M2A, with an AMD 5000+ and running 2 gigabytes of Corsair 800 MHZ ram..
I'm running 4 total hard drives, beginning to overclock my video card (which when oced to its limits still puts a 3% drop on my PSU, and thats at 750W), 3 optical drives, and a 90W processor on standard clocks =P I'll probably hit a vdrop (how much voltage is lost) of 5% when I overclock my processor.
A Vdrop of -5% means your parts are beginning to lose power. I've seen people wiht a Vdrop of 11% and still run their pc just fine.
A Vdrop of +5% means your parts are getting too much power and are most likely going to fry if something isnt done immediately.
to show a example of how sensitive electronics can be, I had a LED rated for 3.3V. It was meant to replace a case LED. I hooked it up to 3 rechargable AAs at 1.2V each (for a combined total of 3.6v). That 0.3V difference, fried that LED in 2 seconds.
Make sure you stick with a good brand psu, its the most critical compenent of your pc.