Yeah, I'm pretty sure my PSU just plain sucks. It's some piece of crap that came in my 30$ Aspire case.
I can't really re-create the problems. They come, and go. Sometimes my computer will work flawlessly for a week or so, then it will just be gay and not work right for the next few days...and so on.
What's happening: Either BSOD, horrible graphical glitches, and my XP installations seem to be...exploding. I've reformatted more times since I bought this computer than I have in my whole life.
Now, what I mean by XP "exploding"... like, my computer will shut off after it gets down having a gayspasm, and then won't boot XP again. It will either BSOD after the splash screen, or just go blank and restart...endlessly.
Heh, to top that off, I reformatted my 200GB HDD, erasing precious files that will take me quite some time to make/get again. After it reformatted, I was installing drivers and re-started it, and it says "NTLDR (or whatever) IS MISSING, blah blah". I got so ****ed that I punched the HDD (was sitting on my table, out of computer) and it started clicking....wasn't mine, anyway. lol :amazed:
But yeah, anyway... can a faulty/just plain [snipped] PSU cause these problems? Or is it the motherboard/CPU?
I have tried countless RAM configurations, so it's not RAM.. I gaurantee it.
New hardware: ATi x800, but all this gayness was happening before I bought it anyway.
Sooo....what do you guys think? I did some construction this past weekend and I'm getting paid a good amount, so I'm buying an Antec Truepower II (even if it's not the PSU, I need it anyway). Do you guys think it's the PSU or what?
PSU Specs:
Cyberlink
430watt (or so it claims anyway)
+12V(1) 14A, +12V(2) 14A, +3.3V 17A, +5V 25A
Frequency - 60/50Hz
Other specs are in my sig.
I can't really re-create the problems. They come, and go. Sometimes my computer will work flawlessly for a week or so, then it will just be gay and not work right for the next few days...and so on.
What's happening: Either BSOD, horrible graphical glitches, and my XP installations seem to be...exploding. I've reformatted more times since I bought this computer than I have in my whole life.
Now, what I mean by XP "exploding"... like, my computer will shut off after it gets down having a gayspasm, and then won't boot XP again. It will either BSOD after the splash screen, or just go blank and restart...endlessly.
Heh, to top that off, I reformatted my 200GB HDD, erasing precious files that will take me quite some time to make/get again. After it reformatted, I was installing drivers and re-started it, and it says "NTLDR (or whatever) IS MISSING, blah blah". I got so ****ed that I punched the HDD (was sitting on my table, out of computer) and it started clicking....wasn't mine, anyway. lol :amazed:
But yeah, anyway... can a faulty/just plain [snipped] PSU cause these problems? Or is it the motherboard/CPU?
I have tried countless RAM configurations, so it's not RAM.. I gaurantee it.
New hardware: ATi x800, but all this gayness was happening before I bought it anyway.
Sooo....what do you guys think? I did some construction this past weekend and I'm getting paid a good amount, so I'm buying an Antec Truepower II (even if it's not the PSU, I need it anyway). Do you guys think it's the PSU or what?
PSU Specs:
Cyberlink
430watt (or so it claims anyway)
+12V(1) 14A, +12V(2) 14A, +3.3V 17A, +5V 25A
Frequency - 60/50Hz
Other specs are in my sig.