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| mahuti:
Hey all, I just thought I'd drop this tidbit by you all. Since I built my cabinet and got it 'finished' it's been plagued by crashes. I just assumed it was my outrageously bad behavior with the pc I'm using. MANY timew when I would be playing a game, the screen would start rolling really fast so that I couldn't read what was going on, if I hit the escape key It might 'reset' the screen. Often, though, it just locked up completely at the same time. I just assumed it was a bad combination of video card, bad wiring, etc. The other day I overloaded & tripped the breaker that runs the section of the house with the cabinet... Killed the power supply. I put a new one in, and BAM problems solved. The old power supply was about 7 years old. 250 watts. The new one is over 300 watts, and I haven't had a problem yet. I've never heard of crashes due to a bad (or underpowered) power supply, but that is the ONLY difference in configuration, and everything's working much better. Come to think of it, I only really noticed the thing crashing a lot after I installed the optipac (1 of 2 USB devices) And I noticed the crashes more on hot days. A power problem had occured to me, but it just seemed rediculous. I'm sure this type of problem is rare, but it was definitely a problem for me. |
| isugoat:
it's not really that rare. there are good & bad brands of power supplies for a reason...the bad brands don't have as reliable current, more fluxuations. and sometimes they're even out of spec. too much or too little power will mess with all your components which = problems. good brands to look for are ones like antec & sparkle. deer is a notoriously bad brand. |
| SirPeale:
--- Quote from: mahuti ---I've never heard of crashes due to a bad (or underpowered) power supply, but that is the ONLY difference in configuration, and everything's working much better. Come to think of it, I only really noticed the thing crashing a lot after I installed the optipac (1 of 2 USB devices) And I noticed the crashes more on hot days. A power problem had occured to me, but it just seemed rediculous. I'm sure this type of problem is rare, but it was definitely a problem for me. --- End quote --- Not rare @ all. If fact, you should consider the power supply the most important piece of equipment in your system. Without it, nothing else will run. I hope when you got the upgrade it was a decent power supply (something from Antec or PowerMax) and not some cheap POS like Deer. |
| Ken Layton:
No matter what brand you have be sure to keep that fan clean. |
| Nailz:
I've had problems when using crappy power supplies in the past as well. You don't need a top of the line, but you shouldn't skimp either. RAM is another thing to not get cheap on..... Glad things are working better for you now, the last cheap power supply I had, went bad on me and killed my mobo, RAM, sound card, video card, and cd-rom, no kidding...... |
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