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I have a slightly odd question.

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So I have been trying to fix an old workstation at my office and I narrowed it down to the PSU. So I went and bought a new CoolerMaster one and installed it. Everything is good until it trys to start windows then the whole damn thing resets over and over again.


Specs on the PC:

Gigabyte GA-8IK1100
P4 2.4 533 FSB Socket 478
IDE CD-Rom drive
IDE 40GB WD400
Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
PSU is CoolerMaster RS-460-PMSR-A3 (Dual 12V rail)


Now, the only thing I can think of it being is that the PSU is being overloaded on one of the 12V rails. The problem arises that I have no SATA drives which I would assume would be on their own rail? And since each rail can only do 156W I think the 9800 Pro is overloading it. How could I go about evening out the rails or can I even do this? If not I guess I could go back to fry's and return it and get a different single rail PSU.


Help Please.
 
It was doing absolutely nothing. It wouldn't even turn on. I had to replace the Motherboard as well, but I don't think that would make a difference.
 
The 9800 Pro uses about 30 watts idle and under 50 full load, I really doubt that's the problem.

Did you try troubleshooting why it's restarting booting windows? Try a fresh install or booting off a livecd just to see if it boots and runs fine off something else.
 
I will attempt that, but I am almost positive that all the other components are fine, but the HDD could have died or be on it's way out.
 
ah see i thought you only took out the old psu & put the new one in...

is your hsf situated properly?...

is your cpu fan plugged in?...

is your ram situated properly?...

do you have the proper cpu/memory settings entered in your bios?...

i ask because whenever i've had something like that happen, it's been that i've overclocked too far, entered the wrong voltage or i've put memory in the wrong slots (or used memory the mobo doesn't like)...that is a weak psu, but it should suffice...

if it were a problem with windows or the hard drive, you'd probably get an error message...
 
& check for loose cables...shouldn't take too long to unplug & plug back in those components...
 
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