Posted October 14, 200618 yr Recently my pc was acting weird.. my screen froze constantly whne playing intensive games, so I figured the graphics card was fried (also the fan on the GC was acting like a racecar) So I bought a new one.. but still no luck.. then I found out the GPU on my mainboard was fried, so bought a new motherboard.. and I figured that I might aswell buy an extra Harddisk and some extra memory while I was at it. My current (new) comp specs: 300w ATX powersupply Asrock mainboard with agp 8x and socket 478 Intel P4 2.4ghz (no hyperthreating), socket 478 60gb ATA100 hd 250 SATA hd 2x 512mb DDR1 ram Nvidia GeForce XFX 6200A (256mb) My current problem: when I turn on the power it starts up (the cpu fan starts spinning etc) but within a second or something it dies again. Now my thought was that the 300w supply just isnt enough for the new stuff anymore.. but not 100% sure.. ive also heard it could be the cpu.. but I cant see how the cpu could have just died all of a sudden (I handled it with care and installed it properly). So I figure to just buy a 500w or more powersupply and see if that worked.. What are your thoughts?
October 14, 200618 yr it has to be the psu because it wouldnt jsut shut off for no reason. try to calculate all of the voltages that each product in your comp uses. then you'll get your answer.
October 16, 200618 yr Bigger CPU. Plus, you bought Intel, so yea . . you already done fucked up there.
