cephalopoid
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I have a 400w Antec power supply. My question is this:
Is there too much stuff running off of it right now?
List of hardware:
ASUS NForce A7N8X2 MoBo
AMD Athlon 2600+
Generic DVDRW 16x
ATI Radeon AIW 9800 128mb
Seagate 160 GB HDD
Seagate 300 GB HDD
Wireless network card.
So the reason I'm asking is that my computer is chugging along lately. AND just very recently when turning on my comp, 1 of 2 things will happen:
My bios, at startup, likes to either says, yes, you do have a DVD drive and no your 9800 is not hooked up (resulting in red warning screens and beeping)
or
no, your DVD drive is not hooked up (though it is) and your computer runs fine.
Resulting in that my DVD drive appears to not have any power to it.
Also, one more thing to add. Once my desktop suddenly went ape, (everything went pink and yellow) like I OC'd my poor little 9800 to 450mb (no OC software on my comp.) I say POOP really loud and shut my machine off, expecting a fire to come roaring out. I saw that one side of the power connector coming from the PSU to the video card was brown, like it was burned. I pulled that cable, hooked up a new one . . . and now the recent problems have started.
Any ideas? Checked and double checked that everything is in place. Ran Asus probe, and nothing is overheating.
Oh yeah, built my rig from scratch almost 2 years ago.
Is there too much stuff running off of it right now?
List of hardware:
ASUS NForce A7N8X2 MoBo
AMD Athlon 2600+
Generic DVDRW 16x
ATI Radeon AIW 9800 128mb
Seagate 160 GB HDD
Seagate 300 GB HDD
Wireless network card.
So the reason I'm asking is that my computer is chugging along lately. AND just very recently when turning on my comp, 1 of 2 things will happen:
My bios, at startup, likes to either says, yes, you do have a DVD drive and no your 9800 is not hooked up (resulting in red warning screens and beeping)
or
no, your DVD drive is not hooked up (though it is) and your computer runs fine.
Resulting in that my DVD drive appears to not have any power to it.
Also, one more thing to add. Once my desktop suddenly went ape, (everything went pink and yellow) like I OC'd my poor little 9800 to 450mb (no OC software on my comp.) I say POOP really loud and shut my machine off, expecting a fire to come roaring out. I saw that one side of the power connector coming from the PSU to the video card was brown, like it was burned. I pulled that cable, hooked up a new one . . . and now the recent problems have started.
Any ideas? Checked and double checked that everything is in place. Ran Asus probe, and nothing is overheating.
Oh yeah, built my rig from scratch almost 2 years ago.