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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    I haven't isolated the actual IDE cable. I shall try that. It's just weird cause it was working before. All of it was fine...until I put in the antec PSU. I know that it's not the jumpers b/c I didn't move any of the drives, or jumpers. Can the actual drive be bad, and perhaps it was...
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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    I isolated the problem... I have the old PSU and everything is fine. However, when I connect 2 optical drives, it gives me the boot up problem. In fact, it's only when I plug in the DVD player that it gives me problems. Can a bad optical drive cause such issues? So for now, I am have only one...
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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    I did as you said. I'm getting the same problem. I try to boot in safe mode, and it locks up at the mup.sys driver. Could I have damaged my mobo upon installation of new PSU? IT WAS working before.... The last thing I installed was my printer, but I've been using the same printer.
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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    CORRECTION! It's doing it again! It's not booting! I turned on my PC, and the first bad sign was the monitor just stayed "black" Monitor was on, but it wasn't displaying anything. I hit the reset button and now it is stuck at the windows loading screen, the blue bar just keeps going and...
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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    As of right now, everything is working. There was one other time that it didn't boot, but I hit restart button, and it went without a problem. How does a PSU prohibit a PC from starting up. I don't get it.
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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    The Windows Repair worked...for a few days. Until it started to automatically d/l stuff via msoft update.... I think doing a windows repair rolls back some SP updates... So once it started re downloading stuff, it caused some problems and I was back to a non booting PC. I just reformatted...
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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    I did the repair. I'm back and running.... weird.
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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    The loading bar is where it gets stuck. The bar moves like it's loading, but nothing happens. The bar keeps moving, it doesn't freeze. It just doesn't get to windows all the way. I'm doing a xp repair right now from the boot cd.
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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    I was reading in other forums that psu's sometimes have cables that say "fan only" But the antec doesn't have anything like that. Is it possible that my optical drives are not getting enough power? I'm gonna boot to cd, and do a repaid on xp.
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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    I was reading in other forums that psu's sometimes have cables that say "fan only" But the antec doesn't have anything like that. Is it possible that my optical drives are not getting enough power? I'm trying to boot to the CD, and it doesn't even do that!
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    installed antec earthwatts 500w, now my pc not working?

    I installed a new PSU, and now my PC gets stuck at the windows xp loading screen.... I have 2 HDD, and I disconnected one of them, thinking it may be causing problems. The keyboard light on the keyboard isn't on either during this screen. I tried to start in safe mode, and it hangs. Did...
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    new psu means no more onboard sound?

    Looking at manual right now, and I can't anywhere that says I NEED a -5v rail... Still looking.
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    new psu means no more onboard sound?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/...plies-_-E0M-_-17371007 is the PSU I'm lookin to get. I hope it's enough power. and it saves on electric bill.
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    new psu means no more onboard sound?

    I want to upgrade my 300w PSU to a 500-600w. Apparently, I was told that if my new PSU doesn't have a 5v line, I would not be able to use my onboard sound that is on my mobo. Please see my specs below. Is this true? Or can I just buy any new PSU and not have to worry about sound issue?
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    2 ethernet ports.

    I have a mobo w/ 2 ethernet ports. It's the K8N Neo 4. I've been using the top one, the nforce nvdia ethernet. The other port is the marvell yukon one, I know that it is called this b/c on the mobo set up CD that is what it is called. Anyway, I've never had to use the 2nd ethernet port b/c...