Here's the problem: My friend built a computer for a friend, and it just melted a 700 watt power supply. They then put in another 700 watt power supply and that died too. Then my friend got a new case and trusted me to rebuild the computer, into the new case, change a few other various things around, but nothing serious. Again, during the rebuild, it ate up his new 750 watter. He had an old junky 600 watt power supply that we threw back in there and turned off a bunch of things, that should be running. I mean, look at the stat list below, there is nothing in there that should be eating power supplies like that, is there? I'm not sure of the wattage on this stuff, but I know it's not much different than my personal custom machine, and my brothers, and niether of us need more than 500 watts.
So my question is, does anybody know what could possibly be the cause for such an over load of power? It's running now, but he's missing his cool lights, and a bunch of fans that would be keeping the CPU cooler right now. Also not running 1 of his HDDs and 1 of his DVDs. So, anyone got any idea what I should check, or any thoughts that might be of some help? Maybe something isn't grounded right? Other than that, I have no clue.
Here's the stats:
-- ABit Motherboard
-- LGA 775 Prescott 3.4 Ghz w/ stock cooling
-- 2x Western Digital 250GB 7500RPM
-- ATI Radeon 9800XT
-- 2x DVD Burners
-- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
-- 2x Geil Ram 512mb
-- 4x 80mm LED fans
-- 1x 120mm LED fan
-- 2x cold cathodes
So my question is, does anybody know what could possibly be the cause for such an over load of power? It's running now, but he's missing his cool lights, and a bunch of fans that would be keeping the CPU cooler right now. Also not running 1 of his HDDs and 1 of his DVDs. So, anyone got any idea what I should check, or any thoughts that might be of some help? Maybe something isn't grounded right? Other than that, I have no clue.
Here's the stats:
-- ABit Motherboard
-- LGA 775 Prescott 3.4 Ghz w/ stock cooling
-- 2x Western Digital 250GB 7500RPM
-- ATI Radeon 9800XT
-- 2x DVD Burners
-- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
-- 2x Geil Ram 512mb
-- 4x 80mm LED fans
-- 1x 120mm LED fan
-- 2x cold cathodes