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Is it safe to assume I have a power supply problem (Read 168 times)

Feb 9^th, 2009 at 11:33pm

brantmacga Offline
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I returned that nvidia PCI card and got the 512mb AGP card.

After installing, my computer kept shutting off.

I unplugged everything except the board and the video card. I couldn't test w/ FS9 because running the DVD-ROM shuts down the computer, but i ran the FSX demo again and my frame rate was excellent, so I think i've got that problem solved.

But anyhow, I'm guessing I have to buy a new power supply now? The video card has to be directly connected to the power supply. The box said a minimum of 270w; I have a 300w and two HDD's, DVD/RW and CD/RW drives.

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Reply #1 - Feb 10^th, 2009 at 4:41am

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Wouldn't hurt to have abit more power Wink

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Reply #2 - Feb 10^th, 2009 at 7:07am

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...after having a number of Power Supplies exploding on me over short periods of time, I finally settled for a good quality 750 Watt PSU (£100) to drive my Socket A AMD 2600+ Processor, 7800 GS 256 AGP Card, 2X Hard Drives, DVD ROM, CD Re-writer, plus a few other bits and pieces...

All running nice and reliably, and cool now...

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