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Weird Issue: Not enough power?

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Murali

Limp Gawd
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Alright, here are my system specs:

Asus A8N32-SLI
AMD X2 3800+
1x eVGA 7800GT
1x Sound Blaster Audigy
4x 512 mb Mushkin
2x BenQ DVD-RW/R
4x Seagate 250 gb drives
1x WD 200 gb drive
1x Hitachi 250 gb drive
1x Rosewill ATA RAID card
All running on (or trying to run on) a OCZ Modstream 520w drive.

Oh and... 3x 120mm fans, 1x 92mm fan

It was working for a while, and then suddenly it bluescreened... Unplugging the PCI ATA card let it all be happy again... but now I have it running with the IDE hard drives plugged into the onboard IDE and the DVD drives unplugged (Power still connected) ... and everything seems fine... Here are my voltages:

3.3V: 3.2
12V: 11.776-11.84
5V: 4.972

Like I said, everything was running happily until about 2 weeks ago, when it BSOD. For whatever reason, my RAID card and another IDE card I have laying around will both work within my computer. However, if I the plug drives into my PCI IDE cards, Windows won't boot... It'll either hang on the loading bar, or it'll BSOD with MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION (STOP 0x0000009c).

Right now, as it is... Its sluggish as hell to boot into windows with the 2 IDE Seagates plugged into my mobo IDE channels.

Without them... It boots pretty fast.

Anyone?
 
Yes... and originally I thought it was a motherboard being put through too much... But it runs fine (albeit boots slow as crap) when all the hard drives are plugged in, without the PCI IDE card... so I'm stumped as to what exactly is going on.

I suppose I could jump-start another powersupply and have it power the 2 extra hard drives and plug them into the PCI IDE card and see if that solves anything.
 
Jump starting the power supply, I ended up getting into windows once.

Cycling to be sure of stability, 2nd boot gave me:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys

Bad hard drives maybe??
 
I would say your issues relate to the PSU being not quite up to powering all of that lot. Can you try it wiht some of the kit unplugged?
 
the a8n32 has a mod plug for powering the pci boards - do you have this pluged in?
 
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