Bad PSU?

Special7 · Feb 18, 2006

Well my specs have changed a bit in my sig I am running a Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.5GHz (250*10) 1.525v w/ eVGA nVidia 7800GT CO @ 470/1100 (Stock), 2x80GB Western Digital Special Edition 7200RPM 8MB Cache, 3x80MM Fans/1x120MM, two optical drives, 2x512MB Corsair XMS @ 2-2-2-5 2.7v, floppy drive. Now I was just playing WoW and I sat idle for a little bit (15 mins or so) and I came back to find my pc had locked up, now I have a Fortron 530W PSU w/ 18A on the 12V line and you can see my voltages through speedfan under 100% load think I need a new bigger PSU and what is recomended? Thanks.

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/6221/wtf4ls.jpg

MaStA · Feb 18, 2006

Special7 said:
Well my specs have changed a bit in my sig I am running a Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.5GHz (250*10) 1.525v w/ eVGA nVidia 7800GT CO @ 470/1100 (Stock), 2x80GB Western Digital Special Edition 7200RPM 8MB Cache, 3x80MM Fans/1x120MM, two optical drives, 2x512MB Corsair XMS @ 2-2-2-5 2.7v, floppy drive. Now I was just playing WoW and I sat idle for a little bit (15 mins or so) and I came back to find my pc had locked up, now I have a Fortron 530W PSU w/ 18A on the 12V line and you can see my voltages through speedfan under 100% load think I need a new bigger PSU and what is recomended? Thanks.

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/6221/wtf4ls.jpg

Have you tried setting everything back to stock settings to see if it still happens? If so it is most likely a non-stable overclock. Your power supply should be good enough, because a Antec 500W PSU runs my computer just fine.

Jared

Special7 · Feb 18, 2006

But I have two cores so thats more demand on the PSU than one.

MaStA · Feb 18, 2006

Special7 said:
But I have two cores so thats more demand on the PSU than one.

530W should still easily handle it...not only 530W, but it is a quality PSU.

Special7 · Feb 18, 2006

Maybe, i'll see how it runs today stock.

OnDborder · Feb 18, 2006

Rails looking good to me..
What Corsair sticks do you have? What version? Are they tccd/5's?

Special7 · Feb 18, 2006

Corsair XMS PC3200XLPT (TCCD).

OnDborder · Feb 18, 2006

You'd think it would lock up during your playing WoW. Has it locked up since or all the time?

MaStA · Feb 18, 2006

Have you tried setting everything to default in BIOS yet?

Special7 · Feb 18, 2006

Yes running completly stock now, back to an official bios too which means no more 250*10 but i'll take stability over a few more fps, played COD2 today no lockups there as it happened once yesturday, gonna play some DOD:S and see how that goes might even install Doom 3 for some tests but otherwise things seems a little better. I also just cleaned up my case a little bit improving airflow/temps and unhooking some things I don't use often like my floppy drive hopefully things are fine now i'll let you know how things go thanks for all the suggestions.

MaStA · Feb 18, 2006

Special7 said:
Yes running completly stock now, back to an official bios too which means no more 250*10 but i'll take stability over a few more fps, played COD2 today no lockups there as it happened once yesturday, gonna play some DOD:S and see how that goes might even install Doom 3 for some tests but otherwise things seems a little better. I also just cleaned up my case a little bit improving airflow/temps and unhooking some things I don't use often like my floppy drive hopefully things are fine now i'll let you know how things go thanks for all the suggestions.

Sounds good. Speaking of DOD:S I think I may run up to the BX and buy it for the $18.95 they are selling it for...no tax either

I'm not liking COD2 multiplayer very much...

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