On Monday 11 August 2003 16:13, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Jamie Wilkinson"> > > > This one time, at band camp, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > > > Any other suggestions? It has one other defect where you sometimes have > > > to press the reset button a number of times before you actually get > > > video output which leads me to believe maybe it is the motherboard. > > > > It could be that a 400W psu still doesn't cut it. You may actually need > > a 600W psu. > > Wow. I'm running a dual-Athlon on 400W; 2 disks, DVD, three or four PCI > cards. It was very unhappy on 350W, but hasn't missed a beat due to power > issues with 400W (though it's not incredibly robust when there's a > flicker). > > I'd be looking at the motherboard too, annoying as it is. :-| > > - Jeff > > -- > linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia > http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ > > Fierce Commerce. Fierce Freedom. Free Software.
I Am Running a dual 1.2GHz Athlon system wirh 3 ultra 160 10,000rmp scsi drives + a burner and dvd +1 80GB ide ata100 drive on a 450W power supply. The boaed is a Tyan. With less hard drives this supply should work fine. however, with only 2 *10K drives and the burner+dvd i was working fine with 300W. It does look as though either cabling or motherboard has a problem. I have an athlon 2.2+ system with 5 devices (drives) on a 300W psu. makes one think about cables and/or motherboard again Gerald -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
