Just bought a new power supply
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cooliscool
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What brand 420W?
Anywho, congrats on the purchase. Always feels good adding on to the old rig.
Anywho, congrats on the purchase. Always feels good adding on to the old rig.
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Enermax. To be honest, I'm not entirely certain I need the extra power...yet. The video card complains about insufficient power at times, say, when running one of nvidia's demos (Dusk, for example) but not at other times, say, when running 3Dmark. I'll get the pop-up consistently when visiting certain websites too. I have no explanation for that. And the system is completely stable except for this one issue. Weird. Oh well, if the old PSU is still good I'll use it in a secondary system somewhere down the road.
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This is bizarre. When the insufficient power warning appears, the fan on my video card stops. It runs normally otherwise, but as soon as that message appears it simply stops. That can't be good. Granted, the card is clocked way down at that point (according to coolbits), but I'd assume the fan is still necessary.
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ScottJC said:
ATI cards crash when they got too low power or when the HDD-extra-power plug is disconnected, nvidia cards clock themselves down when the power is too low, it's usual for a Nvidia card
And i can't really imagine that 420 Watts are too few for a normal PC system !
Allnatural, you should get your money back for that card, it may be broken, or it's a driver bug, I heard something of a similar bug in a certain driver who triggers the low-power message.
That error is indeed bizarre !
A bad fan (video, CPU, PSU, case, whatever) can cause a bunch of bizarre power related issues. Most likely the fan is still trying to pull juice, but since it's not using it it could be surging back to the PSU causing it to short momentarily. Just a guess, but happened to me once with a CPU fan.
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You all do understand that I haven't received the 420W PSU yet? I'm using my old 350W until the new part arrives, so I'm holding out hope that the upgrade will eliminate the problem.
I've also read about that, but I've been using the same drivers for months and the problem only recently appeared. I updated yesterday (was long overdue) and the problem persists. I really hope the card isn't the issue; It's only a year old.
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Well, looks like the old PSU was the problem after all. Just installed the new 420W model and all is well, so far. While poking around my case I noticed a capacitor that was slightly swollen. Will have to watch that...
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RJARRRPCGP
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Allnatural said:
Warning, Epox motherboards are known to have capacitor failures!!!
It's likely that Epox is using literally el-cheapo capacitors
. http://badcaps.net