• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

psu problems

Z

Zucharn

n00b
Joined
Jun 3, 2005
Messages
43
I was wondering if my power supply is too small. It is a 320w made by on2 tech.
My system specs are: athlon xp 2600+ barton, abit nf7-s rev. 2, sapphire 9600xt, a generic 50x cd-rom drive, and a 40 gig maxtor hard drive. I also have 2 case fans.
My problem is that when I tried adding an 80gig samsung drive in addition to my current one, the system would crash extremely often during periods of high hard drive access, and the drives made loud clicking noises. The problems stopped when I disconnected the second drive. However, the drive worked fine in another computer that has an enermax 450w psu.
 
Sounds like it.....but to be sure you need to switch another PSU into your system. Can you borrow that enermax?

If not give us a budget (not $20), and the full system specs.
 
Wattage to small, nah. Piece of crap, quite possibly.

Had about 8-10 drives, 9800pro, OCed P4 2.4C running stable as anything on a system with a Zalman 300W or something like that. Quite stable. This isn't a size thing, it's the fact that the wattage sticker they slapped on it isn't very indicitive of the unit's functional power or quality.
 
I can't switch the enermax in because it's in my dad's computer about 400 miles away.
My full system specs are the 320w psu, an athlon xp 2600+ barton at stock speeds, a sapphire 9600xt, a no name cdrw, a no name cdrom, abit nf7-n motherboard, a 40gig maxtor drive, and an 80gig samsung drive, and an old 3com nic, and 2 antec case fans. whole setup is in an antec full tower, i think it is the plusview thingy.
my budget for a new psu is about $50, because my monitor seems to be dying as well and i'm saving about $150 for a new 1.
i got my psu because I had $20 and the psu I was planning to put in fell out of the car and smashed on the asphalt. so I went into the town electronics store and asked what their cheapest atx psu was.
 
Zucharn said:
I can't switch the enermax in because it's in my dad's computer about 400 miles away.
My full system specs are the 320w psu, an athlon xp 2600+ barton at stock speeds, a sapphire 9600xt, a no name cdrw, a no name cdrom, abit nf7-n motherboard, a 40gig maxtor drive, and an 80gig samsung drive, and an old 3com nic, and 2 antec case fans. whole setup is in an antec full tower, i think it is the plusview thingy.
my budget for a new psu is about $50, because my monitor seems to be dying as well and i'm saving about $150 for a new 1.
i got my psu because I had $20 and the psu I was planning to put in fell out of the car and smashed on the asphalt. so I went into the town electronics store and asked what their cheapest atx psu was.
Click to expand...

Ok I was hoping we could swap to be sure there wasn't another item causing the issue. Look at these PSU's.....feel free to shop them around for a better price:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103935 $55

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104936 $55

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103444 $44
 
with the enermax, it says 14A on the 12V rail, and it says dual 12V rails, i'm just looking for clarification on wether it means 2 14A rails, or 14A spread between 2 rails.
 
Zucharn said:
with the enermax, it says 14A on the 12V rail, and it says dual 12V rails, i'm just looking for clarification on wether it means 2 14A rails, or 14A spread between 2 rails.
Click to expand...

Ahhhhh.....newegg. 2 12v's, one with 14amps...one with 13amps.
 
when I went to enermax's website and looked up the specs, the website says that each 12v rail is 18A. are they different versions of the psu? because they have the same model #.
 
Zucharn said:
when I went to enermax's website and looked up the specs, the website says that each 12v rail is 18A. are they different versions of the psu? because they have the same model #.
Click to expand...

There can be different revisions.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top