Power Supply, Motherboard, or Processor

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[YF] Daniel

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Well, I have been having this problem for a while and I can't seem to figure out what it is.

So, whenever I play a game, like Day of Defeat, my computer will frequently reboot. It goes into some sort of ghost mode, in which the computer stays on but there is no video and the power buttons do not work. My P4 runs 35°C Idle. I have not tried a new PSU, processor or motherboard. I am about to get a new power supply, but I want to be sure what the culprit is.

ASUS P4P800SE
P4 2.4
420 Watt Raidmax

What is a good power supply brand? I am thinking about a Antec.

Thanks in advanced, Daniel
 
It's most likely the PSU..Raidmax sucks. But it could also be the RAM, so I'd recomend trying that before anything. Fortron makes good PSU's for relatively cheap.
 
Yea, the RaidMax PSUs are not great! I use a raidmax case with a 420 Watt PSU that I bought for like $40 total. What sucks is that there aren't enough power toggles! However, for my computer, the RaidMax 420 Watt PSU that came with the case is sufficient.
I have a 3.2 Ghz Northwood P4, PNY 6800GT, 1 GB Ram, D865 PE Mobo, 2x Maxtors DM 10 HDD (used to have 3 harddrives, 2x maxtors and 1x seagate, until the seagate broke), DVD Burner, 4 PCI cards, Zalman fan. However, i never had a problem playing of restarting! I believe my system would drain more energy than yours, but when i played HL2, AOE3, or UT2k4, I never had the issue. So it MIGHT not be your PSu.
 
sc00ter said:
But it could also be the RAM, so I'd recomend trying that before anything.
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I ran memtest86 without any errors.

Tomorrow, I will try diferent configurations of RAM. I have a D-C 256MB Kingston ValueRAM and a D-C 512MB Kingston ValueRAM
 
It's probably the motherboard. I've never known a problem to get instantly resolved by upgrading the PSU.

It always seems the obvious answer and people here are always real quick to blame the PSU, but more often than not, it's not the culprit.

I've recently gone through 2 antec 480w psu's thinking they were the cause of a problem I was having and now have an 600w enermax psu. This enermax cost me £100 and while it's certainly more powerful, better made, and ALOT quieter, it didn't solve the problems I had.

No, the problem was the motherboard which I discovered when I got a new one. Older mobo's with weak components (the capacitors) are usually to blame for random reboots, cold boot failures etc.


This is just my experience.


Tell me, what mobo do you have? Who's it made by?
 
spine said:
It's probably the motherboard. I've never known a problem to get instantly resolved by upgrading the PSU.

It always seems the obvious answer and people here are always real quick to blame the PSU, but more often than not, it's not the culprit.

I've recently gone through 2 antec 480w psu's thinking they were the cause of a problem I was having and now have an 600w enermax psu. This enermax cost me £100 and while it's certainly more powerful, better made, and ALOT quieter, it didn't solve the problems I had.

No, the problem was the motherboard which I discovered when I got a new one. Older mobo's with weak components (the capacitors) are usually to blame for random reboots, cold boot failures etc.


This is just my experience.


Tell me, what mobo do you have? Who's it made by?
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I havre an Asus P4P800SE.

Did you have the same problems I am having?

(I just put in a new RAM configuration, now to test it)
 
BUMP

And the hole depends...

I was playing some UT and the box rebooted like normal.

Now, when I boot it a long, endless BEEP sounds. The CPU fan spins and is plugged into the board. What does this long beep mean?

I ordered a Power Suply from Newegg last Saturday and it still hasn't shown up on the online order status... What's up with that?

Edit:

Fixed!

It was the Power Supply.
 
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