Recently replaced my Geforce4 Ti4400 with a Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder. Ever since putting the card in, I couldn't power on the system. I just figured that the Antec 300 watt power supply wasn't enough for the card with everything else I had in the box (3 hard drives, 2 CD drives, Raid controller, a few fans). I installed an Antec 400 watt power supply, still the same thing. I would push the power button and the system would attempt to power up for a split second, then immediately power off again. As soon as I take the Radeon card out of the system and hit the power button, it powers right up. I can't imagine that a 400 watt power supply wasn't enough but nevertheless, I installed a brand new Antec True Power 430 watt PS. Still had the same issue.
At this point I moved the system to a new case (something I was planning on doing anyway) and removed 1 of the hard drives, and the raid controller. Here is the system as it stands:
Epox 8RDA+
Athlon 2400XP
512 MB Corsair PC-2700
2 ATA 100 IDE Drives
1 DVD-Rom Drive
1 DVD+R/RW Drive
3 80MM Fans
ANTEC 430W PS
At this point, I should be able to power this thing no problem with a much smaller PS yet the F'ing thing won't power up . I ran all of this, with the extra HD and raid controller with my GeForce card on a 300W PS with ZERO issues.
Is my Radeon card defective?????? I love the card but I'm about to flush it down the toilet.
At this point I moved the system to a new case (something I was planning on doing anyway) and removed 1 of the hard drives, and the raid controller. Here is the system as it stands:
Epox 8RDA+
Athlon 2400XP
512 MB Corsair PC-2700
2 ATA 100 IDE Drives
1 DVD-Rom Drive
1 DVD+R/RW Drive
3 80MM Fans
ANTEC 430W PS
At this point, I should be able to power this thing no problem with a much smaller PS yet the F'ing thing won't power up . I ran all of this, with the extra HD and raid controller with my GeForce card on a 300W PS with ZERO issues.
Is my Radeon card defective?????? I love the card but I'm about to flush it down the toilet.