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re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Friday, March 26, 2004 at 8:14 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by D Hoover
(4 messages posted)
As followup, I decided yesterday to try a new power supply. I went with a 430Watt
PSU. My posting below, I discovered was a bit inaccurate as in that machine there
are 6 hard drives, not five. And a little to my surprise, the PSU was only a 300Watt.
I ran the new PSU and under intensive activity all was fine. I also added two quiet
fans running off the PSU lines directly. There was eventually one power down but
it looks as though it was a windows problem, as the file it was decompressing at
the time did have major corruption. So at least so far I'm happy to say the problem
appears to be that I was acomplete idiot for running 6 hard drives, a DVD burner,
an Audigy Platinum sound card, an ATI A-I-W 9000 128Mg video off a 300W PSU. Duh.
On Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 1:30 pm, D Hoover wrote:
>I'm anxious to hear how it goes. I'm having random shutdowns and freezes on a W2000
>w/A7V8X-X w/Barton 2500+ AMD. But here's the funny thing. Bought a new tower (ASUS)
>w/400W power supply. The PSU dies. Get new PSU, 400W again. Now freezes, reboots,
>and goe sfor a beer whenever it wants. Oh yeah, I run 5 hard drives (all 120GB WD
>ATA 133 8MB buf -- 3 on a Promise raid card) and DVD burner. I've been running the
>ASUS utility that graphs power usage and temp. I notice that prior to shutdown temp
>climbs and voltage climbs, but not beyond what specs say board & PSU should handle.
>So, anyone think 400W not enough. What, do i need to hook up my big block chevy
to
>keep the damn thing running? Man, who'lda thunk I'ld have to pay more for PSUs than
>the entire cost of the machine.
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>On Monday, March 15, 2004 at 4:34 am, Solidus wrote:
>>Hi, I'm having the exact same problems with my Intel setup.
>>The computer just powers off suddenly or XP will generate an error like "Windows
>>XP has recovered from a serious failure" or something like that.
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>>I'm running Intel 3.2gig HP technology, 1 gig Twin Mos RAM, Asus Radeon 9800XT
graphics
>>card and an Intel D865PERL motherboard with a 350watt PSU.
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>>It powers down mostly when playing games like C&C Generals and EVE online which
>are
>>pretty dependant on high spec machines.
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>>Also I'm a bit of a case coolling fanatic so I have a lot of fans connected.
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>>I'm thinking it's probably the PSU, so I'll get a 460W and see if that fixes it,
>>and will post on here with the result.
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>>Cheers!
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