- Jun 3, 2001
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Okay, so I have this old ECS K7S5A that has been sitting for ages with an old T-bird 1.4ghz. I dug up a generic 300W PSU, and see if I can power it up with nothing installed, see if anything will work. So I plug it up, and press power, CPU fan does one rotation and everything stops. Same thing everytime.
Bad PSU? I tried just now with a PIII800E and Asus P3V4X, fan spun up fine and it seemed to work. Is it because the Athlon chugs too much power and the PSU can't cut it? Keeping in mind both of these computers ONLY had CPU's and memory plugged in.
Bad PSU? I tried just now with a PIII800E and Asus P3V4X, fan spun up fine and it seemed to work. Is it because the Athlon chugs too much power and the PSU can't cut it? Keeping in mind both of these computers ONLY had CPU's and memory plugged in.