My PC hates me......

[lazytomc]

Its me again.... Ive tried a 300Watt power supply with my XP 1700+ and I've disconnected all unnecessary fans, removed expansion cards etc... but I still get lockups, crashes and blue screens. I reckon its either some kind of hardware/software compatibility problem, a bios problem (although I have upgraded successfully to the latest version), or the motherboard/cpu is damaged... Any ideas which it could be? Is there a way I can find out?

Thanks.....

Spec:
Athlon XP 1700+
Thermaltake Volcano 6Cu+
Asus A7M266
256Mb Unbuffered DDR RAM
Generic 300Watt PSU
VooDoo5 5500 64Mb AGP
SB Live! 5.1
:confused:

[armatage]

I also had a problem with an Asus mobo where it would lock-up a lot for no reason. Even trying all new drivers, patches, service packs, bios updates and even different operating systems. None of these solved the problem and in the end i bought an Abit KG7 and my computer hasn't crashed yet. I belive the problem was with the southbridge chip as this controlls the PCI slots and IDE ports and I think it was an IDE problem.

Try downloading some benchmarking soft like Sandra 2002 for Performance test and test each part of the computer at a tine i.e. the HHD then the RAM and so on. If your computer crashed during a certain point the this is proberly the problem.

www.passmark.com Performance test
http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/ Sandra 2002

Hope this helps.

[Newbie_Doo]

I am moving this to AMD ASUS Motherboards and putting a copy in General Hardware. Good luck.

Anthony

[o770]

did u try checking your voltages? im not sure but 300W still seems a bit low for me. if you have the chance to try it out with a more powerful psu..
dont forget to enter the bios and check the voltages monitor too.

[MoPMatrix]

300w psu should be plenty,
I have a 350w antec..
And look at my sig,, all the crap I run :P
It's fine...
Most prebuilt comps come with a 120w psu and they do fine.... but thats a diff story :P

[ThePunkGeek]

could it be heat? did you mount your heatsink correctly?

i would not belive it was power when i started with this comp i had a 250w psu with 12 fans and no problems
i still upgraded to a 400 but it wasnt because of power issues

[Yodums]

First thing reformat and reinstall Windows.

Second check your temperatures while your at that check your rails on the PSU.

If that fails try narrowing down hardware like pulling all PCI slots and maybe your HDD can be the problem here.

Yodums