you got 5 hard drives 2 x CD/DVD drives, 4 ? fans whatever is on the USB ports The P4 ? GB Memory
Are you sure that your PSU is providing sufficiently stable power at all required voltages for those devices at their startup I'd guess 20 watts per drive 100 for the CPU, 50? for memory, 20? for the fans ?? Video So that's under 300, or 400 with the Video, but - it's the stability under loading on each voltage/supply line that needs to be considered Try taking out the power supply for a couple of the drives and see if that makes a difference JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Gundersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Windows XP Boots, but won't do anything! On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:05:30 -0500, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:38 AM >Subject: Re: Windows XP Boots, but won't do anything! > >> Are you sure that what fried the 350w isn't trying to do the same to the >> 600w ps ? > >Although not intentional, you may have set up this scenario: > >Something in your house keeps popping a 20 amp circuit breaker. You change >out the 20 amp, replacing it with a 30 amp. You get the same affect when you >install a larger power supply and have a component that is drawing too much >power. By giving it more power the circuits in the motherboard (if it is >motherboard fed like a card) are overloaded. I wonder if this is what >happened to the motherboard I spoke of in another post. If it is direct line >fed such as a hard drive or CD/DVD device my guess is only the power supply >and the device is put at risk. > >Chuck No Chuck - been there - done that. Running a P4 3.2 Ghz HT now (was an AMD 1700+) with all the trimmings on a Gigabyte MOBO with dual CPU 6 phase power. 1 x SATA 160Gb Hdd, 3 x 160 Gb PATA Hdd, 1 x 60Bg Hdd, 2 x CD/DVD burners, 3.5 floppy, 4 case fans, multi-card reader, firewire and several USB ports and 1 x Canon printer - the other 3 are run from the server. So the original (2nd actually) was not up to the job - actually the original was 350W and the one that fried was 400W this one runs almost ice cold. Sir Hugh of Bognor -- Remember. You may honestly believe that you understood everything you thought I said but what you thought you heard wasn't exactly what I said. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
