Power Supply Crisis....

[amphoteric88]

I doubt your components aren't getting enough power/current.

I run an Athlon 2700+, 3 hard drives, a radeon 9600 pro (overclocked to 520/620), a cd-rw drive, the cpu fan and a case fan all on 420W...

edit: you could temporarily disconnect your cd-rom drive...unless you really need two optical drives...

[gungrave]

unplug any usb things?

[Shiranai_Baka]

Originally posted by atiVidia@8 May 2004 - 03:17
why do i get the feeling u forgot to plug the molex?


actualy, im positive that u forgot to plug the molex. with ur system specs u should easily be able to use the card.


the message u recieved is the same that i <s>recieve</s>receive when i unplug my molex

molex? is it the auxiliary plug thing? the white plug? If you mean that, Then Yes, I did.

[amphoteric88]

Originally posted by Shiranai_Baka@8 May 2004 - 03:43
Then Yes, I did.

Yes, you forgot or yes, you plugged it in?

[Shiranai_Baka]

Yes, I did plug it in..

[gungrave]

Originally posted by Shiranai_Baka@8 May 2004 - 03:51
Yes, I did plug it in..

try using a nother one might be faulty...

[Shiranai_Baka]

faulty.? thats actually possible? Well what if I were to buy another PSU? how much power would I need?

Edit: Ok, I switched those auxiliary power connector thingies and the message still comes up. Btw, I have 4 fans with the specs I have (omit the GFX5200) do the 4 fans take up alot of energy?

[clocker]

Originally posted by Shiranai_Baka@7 May 2004 - 20:04
After it says not enough power it says this:

"To protect your hardware from potential damage or causing a potential system lockup, the graphics processor has lowered its performance to a level that allows continued safe operations."

What is the message (exactly) that is telling you it "needs more power"?
Assuming that your PSU is not a complete POS then 400w should be plenty to run your system.

[lynx]

Use Aida32 or something like that to check your voltages, particularly 12V.

If it really is a power supply problem the 12V line will be well down.

[clocker]

Originally posted by lynx@8 May 2004 - 07:35
Use Aida32 or something like that to check your voltages, particularly 12V.

If it really is a power supply problem the 12V line will be well down.

As an aside...
I get very different readings on my 12v rail from different programs.
AIDA32...12.21v
MBM5 and Speedfan...11.56v
BIOS...12.26v

Digital multimeter reading from a Molex....12.28v

Hard to tell which to believe.