<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

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