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Feb 16, 2003, 12:33 AM
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Styleless Wonder
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The PSU or not the PSU? That is the question..
My friend recently purchased a Maxtor 60 GB hard drive and Hynix 512 MB SDRAM PC133. Everything before the upgrade was fine, but as soon as we added the 2 new items after some cleaning and rewiring, his computer started to hard lock randomly. I personally think it is his PSU. Because I personally only experience hard locks without a reset in Windows XP when there is a PSU problem. His PSU is label-less so I don't know the Watt capacity is.
Basically I need verfication to the PSU problem. I don't think RAM will cause a hard lock, nor a faulty HD. Is there any other possibilities? If so please list them.
P.S. - I brought his 512 stick of memory home to test with mine, I'm going to try it tomorrow.
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Feb 16, 2003, 12:37 AM
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VETUS INFLATIO
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Red Lodge UK
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LETS HERE THE SPECS
Anything above 250 watts is necessary, but what mobo, what cpu, what OS, please more data
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Feb 16, 2003, 05:15 AM
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World Destroyer
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Well, my old crappy 235W PSU (you read well) once fed four HDDs and a CD-ROM drive without any trouble. Of course it all depends of the rest of the setup, particularily the mobo & the graphics card. PSU might be too weak, still I suggest you don't dismiss the new RAM so quickly. In any case, did you check the seating of all expansion boards, are the cables secured in place, etc ?
Also, some utility to check on the main mobo voltages would definitely help.
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Feb 16, 2003, 09:33 AM
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Styleless Wonder
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Specs
ASUS CUV4X, P3 733, ATI XPERT 2000, Windows XP...... Anyways, I've got confirmation about it being the PSU at Rage3D.
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Feb 16, 2003, 09:45 AM
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World Destroyer
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Re: Specs
Quote:
Originally posted by No_Style
ASUS CUV4X, P3 733, ATI XPERT 2000, Windows XP...... Anyways, I've got confirmation about it being the PSU at Rage3D.
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Yah, possible... Really I'm surprised you could boot at all with a 250W PSU on that setup. My P3V4X accepted no less than 300W. And I was hoping your mobo would be an ASUS actually...  Now I can direct you to try ASUS PC-Probe and check the voltage lines, to be sure. |
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