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Oct 6, 2004, 07:06 PM
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6800 Causing Reboot?
I just bought it and its in an Alienware with 340w PS. Was working fine but now when I get into a game after a few minutes my whole system reboots. Is it a drain on my PSU? The temp checks look fine.
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Oct 6, 2004, 08:02 PM
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A 340W PSU is really streching it; did you format when you first got it? Are DX 9.0c and the latest drivers installed? If so you might want to start with a PSU upgrade. nVidia's latest GPUs can be taxing on a lower spec power supply.
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Oct 6, 2004, 08:18 PM
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Do yourself a favor: Go buy yourself an Antec 400w (or above) power supply.
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Oct 7, 2004, 02:28 PM
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Just picked up a 430w Antec True Power, will let you know later how it works.
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Oct 7, 2004, 02:33 PM
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My guess is that it's just a badly written game. I don't think Alienware would have sent a PC with an undersized PSU.
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Oct 7, 2004, 02:58 PM
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Alienware uses a min of 480W PSUs in it's new machines so if it's a 340W then it might have been an older system.
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Oct 7, 2004, 03:20 PM
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Yes is a 2 year old Alienware so 340 then was suficient. But with 2 CD drives, 120mb hard drive, 4 case fans, cpu fan, floppy, 1Gb ram, and the added 6800. I think it was too much for the 340 to handle so it spiked and would reset itself. The 430 I think should be enough to power the rig now.
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Oct 7, 2004, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Slayyerr
Yes is a 2 year old Alienware so 340 then was suficient. But with 2 CD drives, 120mb hard drive, 4 case fans, cpu fan, floppy, 1Gb ram, and the added 6800. I think it was too much for the 340 to handle so it spiked and would reset itself. The 430 I think should be enough to power the rig now.
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Yep; sounds about right. Let us know how it worked out for you. |
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Oct 9, 2004, 10:06 AM
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Ok after replacing the PSU and still getting numerous reboots. I remove one stick of ram and it all went away. Bad RAM = the debil it seems. Numerous crashes with all kinds of different errors. My question is that this didn't happen until about 2 days after I put the 6800 in. Coincendence or PSU + 6800 addition cause this?
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Oct 9, 2004, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Slayyerr
Ok after replacing the PSU and still getting numerous reboots. I remove one stick of ram and it all went away. Bad RAM = the debil it seems. Numerous crashes with all kinds of different errors. My question is that this didn't happen until about 2 days after I put the 6800 in. Coincendence or PSU + 6800 addition cause this?
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More than likely just bad coindendence; at least you got a new PSU out of it as well.  |
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Oct 11, 2004, 06:49 PM
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kinda late, but you can run memtest86 to make sure your ram is good:
http://www.memtest86.com/ |
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