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PSU Problem

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overclocker578

Limp Gawd
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Thanks guys,
Power supply turned out to be the problem. Im going to sell my system as it is much too powerful for my needs.
 
i'm not sure how stable my rails are... hehe.. but i have a Thermaltake TR2 W0070 ATX 430W Power Supply runnin in my core 2 duo system right now (my temporary go to psu because i'm waitin for my seasonic m12). 18amps on the 12volt line. i orthosed for 5 hours so far and it's fine. i'm thinking that the antec just might be having issues with the mobo. lots of antecs have been doin it with a lot of asus and asrock mobos. it might also be because of the converter too. motherboard and psu manufacturers dont reccomend them. if the mobo is an atx 2.0 board, you should get an atx 2.0 psu also. don't wait for the psu to blow /w a dont fix it if it aint broke kinda attitude, hehe. cause when psu's go out they aint like ram and cpu where system wont boot, they could take out the whole system in a blazing electrical fire of glory filled with fizzles and pops. my 3 year old 250watt codegen didn't give off quite a show, nothing powered up, but when i got a new psu, i found that i had to replace my abit kt7, 9800pro, 80gb western dig, 3000+ barton. luckily my 768mb of ram wasnt affected yaye... :rolleyes: so yah dont skimp on the psu. i usually spend more on the psu now than on my processors ;p. simply because it affects all the parts. hehe... especially dont want it to kill a 7900gtx. :D Plus... that's a hefty processor you have there.

e6300 (small oc of 270x7)
asrock conroe945g-dvi
7900gtx
2x512mb 1gb ddr2 667
250gb seagate 7200.10
NEC 16x DVD
2 x 120mm fans

The same psu worked just fine for my old system too:

e6400 (OC'd to 400x8)
MSI 975X Platinum
X850XT
2gb OCZ DDR2-800 Platinum XTC
300GB Seagate
DVD Rom
CDR/RW
3 x 120mm fans
 
ooh yah.. that changes things a little. could it perhaps be mobo problems? did it ever boot at all? one of my asus premiums would turn on but no video and if speakers were connected to sound it would say vga check failed. or something like that. i've still yet to rma that sucker. ;p
 
Well, the motherboard is not beeping anymore so I guess its a singal of no problems. The wierd thing is that I have a monitor that flickers and stays on a green led when I turn the computer on, maybe showing its recieving something but no image. The strange thing is that even when I install an old PCI video card, there is STILL no video. Really strange problem. Do you know if it is even normal for there to be an offset of when the computer starts and when the fan on the video card starts spinning?
 
lol. reset cmos. ;p hehe. try one stick of ram. if you have any other availale use those. might be finicky with it. i think mobos do cpu check, ram check, then vga check. 3 beeps usually ram i think... and then 6-8 are the vga card. tried removing everything and putting it back in again? :D wierd how that works for me sometimes, but i'm just forgetful and sometimes skip a lot of steps. ;p
 
isnt the cmos jumper to the left of the southbridge? just jump to the next pin and jump back. and cmos reset. it usually solves a lot of issues... like leftover settings that the mobo couldnt run at... :D yah... and always reset after you replace the ram/ move something... makes for less headaches.
 
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