bad power supply??

[inkjunkie]

for the past few months my nightmarish pc has been acting very strange. having "stacker errors" while booting, doing the crash and burn kind of stuff etc. i am running xp pro, an xp2100+ cpu, abit board and a gig of ram. my case and power supply are from the stone age. i installed the hardware monitor for my mb the other day. the 12v line is reading 11.44 volts at idle. a friend at work has said this is the problem, but am looking for a second/third opinion....
thanks:disgust:

 

[User1001]

Originally posted by: inkjunkie
for the past few months my nightmarish pc has been acting very strange. having "stacker errors" while booting, doing the crash and burn kind of stuff etc. i am running xp pro, an xp2100+ cpu, abit board and a gig of ram. my case and power supply are from the stone age. i installed the hardware monitor for my mb the other day. the 12v line is reading 11.44 volts at idle. a friend at work has said this is the problem, but am looking for a second/third opinion....
thanks:disgust:

No its normal for the voltage to be a little bit under. Not very sure what a stacker error is...but I believe it refers to compressed HD (I could be wrong on that)

 

[DoubleUhat]

I think it's RAM problem, try running memtest or by running 1 stick of RAM at a time.

 

[inkjunkie]

ran memtest for a weekend, no errors.....

 

[DoubleUhat]

Might have to disable the video ram cache, system bios cache stuff on the bios and if that don't work. u still have to test the ram one pc at a time.