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wazoo42

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I have a shuttle ak31 rev. 1 with a generic (probably 300w) power supply, 768MB of ram, one 200gb hd, a 1600+, ati aiw dv pci, and a generic ethernet card. The comp will reboot every day or so, and when it comes back up the hd light will be stuck on. The screen says "no boot disk found", and it takes a cold boot to fix the problem. Does this sound like a problem with the ps? MBM has the following voltages:
core 1.75
+3.3 3.22
+5 4.84
+12 12.22
-12 -12.27
-5 -5.14

I was thinking of replacing the ps with a 350W superflower 14cm one from directron. Any suggestions?
 
it might be the powersupply, my comp had a rebooting problem but it was do to windows automatically shutting it down. you should check to make sure its not doing that
 
Replace the Motherboard I'd say. The AK31's (especially rev1.0 which was KT266 (without the 'a)) were especially picky of PSU's back in the day. You'd need at least a 400Watt PSU to get them up and running properly. In my opinion though, its not worth it, even when I had two of them working, I never got them truely stable. They'd just progressively get worse by the day until I couldn't do anything without a random reboot issue which by this time would be better termed a chronic reboot issue. Anyway I ended up going with Epox 8KHA+ (KT266a chipset) and was very pleased to find that things indeed can work with a working motherboard.

[edit:] for everyone who thinks I'm jumping the gun and not proscribing troubleshooting everything else including the PSU, please realize that I've had alot of experience with AK31, the revision 1 boards were on the infamously poor KT266 chipset, it wasn't until revision 2.0 that they redesigned the whole layout including the leads from CPU to northbridge and ram and started using the redesigned KT266a chipset when they finally became modestly stable. The 2 boards I had back in the day were revision 2.0 and they still sucked quite frankly I enjoyed the day I took a pair of needle nose pliers to the components on the motherboard.
 
Thanks for the replies. I think I will just scrap it then since I don't really want to go through the hassle of upgrading the mobo.
 
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