Right, well I've just recently bought the following hardware to upgrade my PC:
Abit AV8 socket 939 motherboard
Athlon 64 3200+ 939 CPU - Retail
Geforce 6800LE 128MB graphics card
Tagan 380W PSU
Rest of the hardware is:
120GB Seagate drive
2 x 512MB Geil PC3200 RAM
I put everything together and installed Windows XP (With SP2) and everything seemed ok, then the problems started.
Any time I try to play a 3D game, Doom 3, HL2, Counter-Strike, anything, after a totally random amount of time, could be 30 seconds, could be 20 minutes, the system locks up!
Either the computer locks and the sound keeps repeating with the same picture on the screen. Or the cscreen goes blank and stays like that until I cold boot the system. Or it restarts itself automatically.
I've tried every single thing I can think of. I've tested the RAM, no errors. Tried putting different RAM in. Formatted and tried again, all with no sucess.
So I installed mt old 9600XT back into my system thinking the 6800 could be at fault.
Same problem keeps happening!!
Anyone got any ideas what's causing this? I think I'm gonna have a breakdown soon! :(
try a different PSU?
depending on it's efficiency that 380W might not be enough?
Does the gfx card etc have it's own individual power lead or are they shared?
Second vote for the psu....those 6800's suck juice like babies at a mother's teet!! :D :D
Suggest something around the 500 mark......watts not pounds that is!! <_<
Well, on the whole Amps are more important than raw wattage. This Tagan supply kicks out a masive 22A, more than enough for most systems.
I have a 400w PSU that displays the same problems.
The problem only occured recently. I have a 9600XT I've used for ages without problem, now all of a sudden, pop that card in, does the same thing.
psu IS on the way out!!....not sure that 22A is any way near enough what you need. have read that some of the new cards require nearer 28-35 because they are so greedy. :o .
Tagan and Enermax do some nice units that kick out 28A for stability issues experienced with high end graphics cards
Check that the pins in the 4 pin molex connector in your hd are secure.Had this problem b4 with poor connection to hard drive.As you stated changeing card makes no difference and you have just rebuilt system so try connectors as they can push out as you try to push connector into hard drive. <_<
I've just put an order in for the 480w Tagan supply with 28A. If this doesn't solve it it definately won't be PSU related. I've seen the 480w Tagan run prety much any standard computer configuration imaginable. It even powers the Scan 3XS-SLI Cobra, a dual Xeon 3.4GHz system with TWO Geforce 6800 GT cards!
http://systems.scan.co.uk/Systems/Configur...SP?SystemID=102 (http://systems.scan.co.uk/Systems/ConfigureFS.ASP?SystemID=102)
Someone buy me this PC!!!
:bitch:
You made my computer feel all inadequate!
:dribble: Yeah OC got SLI capable boards available from December(Still atx format though) <_<
Anyone fncy giving me 4,500 odd quid this christmas. And before anyone makes the joke, yes normal quid arent worth as much as odd ones.
Maybe more power ive got a 550v baby :D