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| sofakng:
Ok, I think I'm drawing way too much power from my junky, generic, power supply... Here's what I have plugged into it: Motherboard + Athlon 1.0 GHz CPU - ATI Radeon 7000 (AGP) - SB Live! (PCI) - Networkl card (PCI) - USB card (PCI) 5400 RPM Hard Drive JBL Car Amplifier (40W x 2) (connected using +12 V) Now everything worked PERFECTLY with that setup. The sound worked beautifully through my car speakers and car amplifier... Windows XP worked great, TV-out, etc... However, I tried plugging in my P360 joystick and then the sound card wasn't even recognized anywhere and thus, I had no sound. Was this because I'm pulling too much from my power supply, or perhaps another reason? What do I need in a power supply to use all this stuff? |
| JustMichael:
Did you recheck the wiring of the P360? Also what do you have the P360 wired to? |
| SirPeale:
Junky PS could do that, also having a PS that isn't powerful enough could do that. What's the wattage on that beast? |
| sofakng:
Well, one part I left out was that last night when I plugged in my P360 into the power supply connector I hacked up, my PC wouldn't boot and I heard a loud POP and I smelt something burning really badly... After that I couldn't get anything to boot and I could've swore I smelt the burning coming from the motherboard. Well, after a few tries I got everything to boot just fine (motherboard, amplifier, speakers, I-PAC, etc). The P360 didn't work but I didn't have any time to try diagnosing anything further. I'm praying I didn't fry the P360 -- I don't see how in the world that could have happened though. All I did was connect the +5v (red) and GND (black) wires to the P360 cables... *sigh* The fact that the sound card stopped being recognized when I plugged everything in leads me to think the powre supply is not strong enough to power all the components, but I really don't know. I'm just looking for suggestions before I go back home tonight and try to figure everything out :( |
| dasme:
Popping and burning is bad. You let all the magic smoke out! Ok bad joke aside that is never a good thing to happen to a pc. I would assume that one of 2 things happened. Either you fryed something on your sound card, or even potentially on your logic board. I would disconnect EVERYTHING and try your sound card in another slot. If it is recognized then the PCI slot it was in got fried. Otherwise it may be your soundcard. Not sure how that could happen by connecting up a 5V connector though, did you maybe short the 12V connector by connecting it right to a ground? |
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