All respond about PSU powerloss (Taking Stories)

merlinxi · Oct 1, 2004, 06:03 AM

I like to know stories about people not having enough power to run their system. I want to know what happend, what was your powersupply wattage, and what were you running on it.

I really never heard an instance of it happening. Never happened to me cause I always had a 600 watt power supply.

SO STORY AWAY!!

GutterPunk · Oct 1, 2004, 06:21 AM

Okay, mine is of a dying psu...

Each time it was shut down, there was a little tick noise it made... this is an antec 430 true. After awhile it just died, but during the dying process, when I would benchmark, you could hear my fans wind down like they werent getting power, and i'd get a reboot here and there...

the end

pr0digal jenius · Oct 1, 2004, 07:05 AM

mine involves a spilled cup of Sobe and a loud popping noise.....

the PC was fine.....minus the rather large build up of 'capacitor juice' all over the top of the case...haha

Judas · Oct 1, 2004, 08:52 AM

Currently my main rigs PSU is (fluctuating) due to stressing it out majorly

350 Watt Enermax dual fan AMD Recommended

Currently pushing (according to ALL PSU calculators on the net) 100 WATTS ABOVE rated PSU (450 on a 350)

specs:

Mobo:Abit AT7-MAX2 KT400 (orginal) FULLY loaded motherboard
CPU: Barton 2500+ @ 3000+
Ram: (had 1gb but pulled 512 out after install the 9800, boot related) 512mb of PC3200 @ 2700
Video: Built By ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb R360
Sound: Hercules Digifire 7.1
Hardrives: 2 Maxtor 30Gb ATA 133 in RAID 0
Other Drives: 1 DVD Burner/1 DVD Rom/1 Floppy
Fans: Total of 8 80mm Fans (all tri/led lights) and 1 120mm and 1 92mm

A PILE of USB devices and 2 monitors....

Drakon · Oct 1, 2004, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Currently pushing (according to ALL PSU calculators on the net) 100 WATTS ABOVE rated PSU (450 on a 350)

So there are proggies or such that can tell u how power ur devices are consuming? could u provide a link or 2 so i can check out my power consumption, please? thank judas...

germanjulian · Oct 1, 2004, 03:49 PM

when I bought my first PC I didnt know much about PC> got cheap case with PSU allready installed. was 250W or so mega cheap PSU.

I installed a Geforce 4 and every time I would cold boot the graphics card would not start properly and on the screen I would just see pinkness... after restart it would be fine cause the components and PSU warmed up. This only happened after cold boots.
KT266, AThlon xp 1700, 2hd and geforce 4 4600.

new case and psu no more problems.... never cheap PSU again

**dj_stick** · Oct 1, 2004, 03:55 PM

hmm first time - i was bored and playing with the PSU out of its case… it got bridged somewhere - "POP" and there goes the circuit breaker
second time - my PSU inside the computer blew for no reason, took out the circuit breaker again

Judas · Oct 2, 2004, 03:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Drakon

So there are proggies or such that can tell u how power ur devices are consuming? could u provide a link or 2 so i can check out my power consumption, please? thank judas...

just do a google search for a caculator (they won't be exact, they'll give you a good guess)

heres an example one http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:...lculator&hl=en

Shinjikun · Oct 2, 2004, 03:34 AM

My old 300W fried on my last machine due to the fans giving out, so needless to say the PSU cooked itself.

Since it was an emergency I went to CompUSA (sigh, yes...

) and purchased an Antec TrueBlue 350W and brought it home. Installed it, ran it over night, and the next morning when I rebooted the computer after brushing my teeth and sure enough I saw a huge flash and loud bang come from my room and the PSU had blown out.

Back to CompUSA! Hooray!

Drakon · Oct 3, 2004, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Judas

just do a google search for a caculator (they won't be exact, they'll give you a good guess)

heres an example one http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:...lculator&hl=en

well thanks, judas. it seems that i may be using more that my psu can push. haven't had any problems with it though...

swimtech · Oct 4, 2004, 12:11 AM

The only instance I can state was absolutely power supply was with an IBM I use at work.

It's a PIII 733, two optical drives, ATI AIW128, ATI DV Wonder card (for firewire input), ethernet card, 256Mb PC133 memory, a Seagate Barracuda 60G hard drive, and one of those weeny 145W stock PSUs.

When trying to upgrade the hard drive from a 20G Maxtor to the present 60G Seagate, I hooked the two drives together on the same channel to image the 20G to the 60G drive. The machine would just freeze during bootup - wouldn't even get past the network card bios initialization text message. I undid power and data cabling to the two optical drives - then the unit would boot. I imaged the drive, removed the 20G drive, hooked the optical drives back up, and crossed my fingers - all was well. Hooked the old 20G hard drive back up (just to see...) and sure enough it froze at the ethernet boot text message. Removed the 20G drive, and all is well again.

I'm riding the limit, and have been for almost two years now. Has frozen at bootup about 4 times since. Warmboot (Ctrl-Alt-Del) gets her going...

Nacht · Oct 4, 2004, 03:30 AM

well i havent had one yet (thank god)...but im amazed my old computer didnt have problems...and it was one of the worst PSUs ever (some off brand used by sony)

here's what was in it,
amd 2400+
1x80MM case fans
1024MB ddr ram
2xHDD (200, 80)
geforce fx 5900 bios modded to 5950 ultra
dvd-rom
cd-rw, (later on a dvd-rw)
fire-wire HDD
usb joystick
keyboard
mouse

(i think thats it)

all running on, get this, a 268.9W PSU.

Judas · Oct 4, 2004, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Drakon

well thanks, judas. it seems that i may be using more that my psu can push. haven't had any problems with it though...

REMEMBER majority of the PSU caculators are based on FULL power.. the one i sent is pretty good.. dark blue being recommended minimum to prevent any possibility of anything not having enough juice.. and the light blue for being "resonable" for power consumption min...

the most stressful time were power is a concern is BOOTUP... if you bootup... and it takes a certain time to post screen (beep)

and then you add something to the system and the bootup time takes noticeable longer.. your on the BLEEDING edge (this is not a good way to judge..)

also... in my case.... after playing..... my i notice my fans the most..... my system had alot of fans.. on bootup.. they would take ages to speed up..

Oct 1, 2004, 06:03 AM	#1
merlinxi The Paranoid Cook Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 655 Rep Power: 0	All respond about PSU powerloss (Taking Stories) I like to know stories about people not having enough power to run their system. I want to know what happend, what was your powersupply wattage, and what were you running on it. I really never heard an instance of it happening. Never happened to me cause I always had a 600 watt power supply. SO STORY AWAY!! __________________ 700 Watt Toughpower Cable Management Power supply -- Asus P55 LE Motherboard -- Intel Core i7 860 2.8GHZ Quad Core -- 6Gb Dominator Ram DD3 8 Latency Timings -- Windows 7 64bit -- Gigabyte GTX470 Superclocked Video Card -- 1.5 TB Hard drive, 1TB hard drive, 250GB Hard drive, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Oct 1, 2004, 06:21 AM	#2
GutterPunk I = Greatest Dood Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Nebraska Posts: 5,949 Rep Power: 70	Okay, mine is of a dying psu... Each time it was shut down, there was a little tick noise it made... this is an antec 430 true. After awhile it just died, but during the dying process, when I would benchmark, you could hear my fans wind down like they werent getting power, and i'd get a reboot here and there... the end __________________ Rock On \m/ Thank you Mousey for the Sig! --------------- Intel Core2Duo E6660 (3.4GHZ) ~ Tuniq Tower 120 ~ Enermax Galaxy 1000W ~ Corsair Dominator @ 1090MHZ 5-5-5-15 (OCZ XTC Modded Cooler)~ EVGA 8800GTX W/ HR-03 Plus 120MM ~ Asus DVD-RW LiteScribe ~ LG DVD-RW ~ Corsair Voyager 2GB ReadyBoost Drive ~ Vantec Nexus Fan Controller ~ ThermalTake Armor 25CM fan ~ Personal Finance Blog: Dent Your Debt

Oct 1, 2004, 03:49 PM	#6
germanjulian Back in London Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: London Posts: 1,797 Rep Power: 0	when I bought my first PC I didnt know much about PC> got cheap case with PSU allready installed. was 250W or so mega cheap PSU. I installed a Geforce 4 and every time I would cold boot the graphics card would not start properly and on the screen I would just see pinkness... after restart it would be fine cause the components and PSU warmed up. This only happened after cold boots. KT266, AThlon xp 1700, 2hd and geforce 4 4600. new case and psu no more problems.... never cheap PSU again __________________ /\|\ Asus P5W DH Deluxe, Intel C2D E6600, 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C4 DDR2, E-VGA GeForce 7800 GT, Creative X-Fi Extreme Music, 500GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA, Lian Li PC-V1100 Aluminum Case Black, etc. http://germanjulian.com /\|\

Oct 2, 2004, 03:34 AM	#9
Shinjikun 第3 子供 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Nerv HQ Posts: 1,319 Rep Power: 0	My old 300W fried on my last machine due to the fans giving out, so needless to say the PSU cooked itself. Since it was an emergency I went to CompUSA (sigh, yes... ) and purchased an Antec TrueBlue 350W and brought it home. Installed it, ran it over night, and the next morning when I rebooted the computer after brushing my teeth and sure enough I saw a huge flash and loud bang come from my room and the PSU had blown out. Back to CompUSA! Hooray! __________________ Xfire: [Shinji1225 \ Status] A7N8X-E Deluxe Athlon XP 2500+ (@ 2.2 GHz 11x200 MHz FSB) Corsair TwinX XMS 1GB PC3200 Dual Channel (2-2-3-5) [color=red]ATi [/color][color=white]Radeon 9500 Pro (@ 330\310) \ [/color][color=white]Omega Catalyst Drivers v2.5.90[/color] [color=white]Ultra X-Connect 500W PSU[/color]

Oct 4, 2004, 12:11 AM	#11
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 122 System Specs	The only instance I can state was absolutely power supply was with an IBM I use at work. It's a PIII 733, two optical drives, ATI AIW128, ATI DV Wonder card (for firewire input), ethernet card, 256Mb PC133 memory, a Seagate Barracuda 60G hard drive, and one of those weeny 145W stock PSUs. When trying to upgrade the hard drive from a 20G Maxtor to the present 60G Seagate, I hooked the two drives together on the same channel to image the 20G to the 60G drive. The machine would just freeze during bootup - wouldn't even get past the network card bios initialization text message. I undid power and data cabling to the two optical drives - then the unit would boot. I imaged the drive, removed the 20G drive, hooked the optical drives back up, and crossed my fingers - all was well. Hooked the old 20G hard drive back up (just to see...) and sure enough it froze at the ethernet boot text message. Removed the 20G drive, and all is well again. I'm riding the limit, and have been for almost two years now. Has frozen at bootup about 4 times since. Warmboot (Ctrl-Alt-Del) gets her going... __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Oct 1, 2004, 07:05 AM	#3
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	mine involves a spilled cup of Sobe and a loud popping noise..... the PC was fine.....minus the rather large build up of 'capacitor juice' all over the top of the case...haha

Oct 4, 2004, 03:30 AM	#12
Nacht ein Krieger Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Clemson Uni Posts: 3,127 Rep Power: 0	well i havent had one yet (thank god)...but im amazed my old computer didnt have problems...and it was one of the worst PSUs ever (some off brand used by sony) here's what was in it, amd 2400+ 1x80MM case fans 1024MB ddr ram 2xHDD (200, 80) geforce fx 5900 bios modded to 5950 ultra dvd-rom cd-rw, (later on a dvd-rw) fire-wire HDD usb joystick keyboard mouse (i think thats it) all running on, get this, a 268.9W PSU.