Originally posted by protecteur@Jan 14 2004, 07:57 PM
To me from personal experiance in pc repairs it definately sounds like a power supply problems. For a P4 and athlons it recommended with athleast 300 watts power supply. Power supply are also design to Shut itself down when the load is to large on them to prevent damage to pc.
Protecteur
Yeah, that is what we thought too, but consider that the problem
left when he lowered the front side bus... I'm speaking directly from experience with the same exact board with almost the same identicle CPU (This one was a 2600+) with the same exact problem and our problem was not the PSU at all. (strong 420 watt PSU) I suppose it could still be the PSU here, but I doubt it because it went away. It just sounds too coincidental IMO.
I have never experienced the PSU powering down because the load was too great. I don't use top line PSU, but I don't use cheapo parts either. It seems odd that the PSU would be able to power it at the lower FSB speed but not 33 Mhz faster? That doesn't make sense. I would think that the system should still be unstable even at the lower FSB speed. Drives are the big power drain and he hardly has anything on this system. One 10 gig, one optical, and the GPU doesn't even require any extra juice. Or maybe the mobo voltage is off... but he already said it seemed ok.
Anyway if it was the PSU, he should be able to disconnect a few drives it would work fine. Of course some times it is just some so stupid and tiny and it is always the last thing to think to check.
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