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Rosewill RV350

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larryBird44

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I was helping a friend upgrade his stock HP a450n P4 3.0Ghz this past week with a Sapphire x800GTO 256mb video card. Anyways we thought it'd be a good idea to upgrade his 250w PSU to this, a 350w Rosewill.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817182006

We are having a problem where he'll play this flying game and as soon as the plane takes off, it powers down immediately, as if somebody pulled the power cord. It takes a few mins before it'll allow you to turn it back on. I have the video card's power input connected to the same line as the harddrive, as recommeneded in the video card install guide. I have also tried using a spare unused line meant for the floppys and cd-roms and still the same problem.

I'm open to suggestions as to what could be causing this.

edit: no overclocks to speak of, including the new video card.
 
Smooth..not really.

15A on the 12v...you're probably getting 10A at most. I'd get a better cpu and also the video card's install guide is retarded or you didn't read it correctly. You should attach the power to the videocard seperate from anything else. Have it on it's own set of molex connectors. No HDs, etc. See if that helps.
 
The only instruction hardware-wise was a sticker on the static bag that very clearly showed you how to connect the included splitter to the PSU, then to the hd and vid card.

Matter of fact, we hooked it up the 1st time using an unused line separate from everything, and we had the problem, so we changed it around according to the video card "instructions".

I'm guessing 10A is too weak...what would you recommend?
 
"I'd get a better cpu and also the video card's install guide is retarded"

He doesn't want a new CPU and what makes you think you know more about video cards then the manufacturer?

OP, grab a Fortron 450W and you will be fine, a cheap $50 or less on newegg.
 
Did you try playing the game with the old PSU back in?

Although it's rated at 250w, it may be of a higher quality than the Rosewill (I know Dell's 250w units perform as well as other 350w units from decent manufacturers).
 
No, my next move was to install the old PSU but didn't have time over the weekend. I'll try and see if that fixes his problem.

Thanks for the input.
 
dBTelos said:
"I'd get a better cpu and also the video card's install guide is retarded"

He doesn't want a new CPU and what makes you think you know more about video cards then the manufacturer?

OP, grab a Fortron 450W and you will be fine, a cheap $50 or less on newegg.
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Sorry, too early in the morning, musta typed too fast. Should be get a better PSU. And if you think about it, why would you want to put the HD and videocard on the same 12v output line? Sure it's the same rail..but still.
 
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