Alright, so last night I cleaned and re-applied my heat sink to my cpu, as it had started running too hot to OC. That itself was successful; at stock speeds, i was running at 57 degrees celsius starting up, and now it's back down to 49/50 max.
However, this was all tested before i hooked my case fans, hard drives, and DVDR/W up to the power supply. After turning off and doing so, I would attempt to boot up. At the same point in loading windows, something fails, all power dies, and the speaker starts its siren. The same thing happened after entering bios and checking my temps. (The CPU never rose above 50)
First, I tried plugging different power into the different devices, thinking i was putting both hard drives on the same string of power, but nothing changed. I discovered that if i put power to even one of these devices, the failure would occur, but if i left all devices unplugged, It didn't fail.
I have an A-Bit NF7-S motherboard, Athlon 2500+, two 1 ghz OCZ ram sticks, a 36 gig raptor, 60 gig western digital, and unfortunately, I forgot the exact name of the power supply (stock on the Antech Lanboys, i think 400 watt 'Blue' somethin or other.)
The only change i made to my setup was putting the dvd-rw and the Western Digital hard drive on their own IDE cables, rather than having only one IDE plugged in for both of them. Also, it never occured to me to unplug the floppy, although I doubt that would be the source of the problem?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated =).
However, this was all tested before i hooked my case fans, hard drives, and DVDR/W up to the power supply. After turning off and doing so, I would attempt to boot up. At the same point in loading windows, something fails, all power dies, and the speaker starts its siren. The same thing happened after entering bios and checking my temps. (The CPU never rose above 50)
First, I tried plugging different power into the different devices, thinking i was putting both hard drives on the same string of power, but nothing changed. I discovered that if i put power to even one of these devices, the failure would occur, but if i left all devices unplugged, It didn't fail.
I have an A-Bit NF7-S motherboard, Athlon 2500+, two 1 ghz OCZ ram sticks, a 36 gig raptor, 60 gig western digital, and unfortunately, I forgot the exact name of the power supply (stock on the Antech Lanboys, i think 400 watt 'Blue' somethin or other.)
The only change i made to my setup was putting the dvd-rw and the Western Digital hard drive on their own IDE cables, rather than having only one IDE plugged in for both of them. Also, it never occured to me to unplug the floppy, although I doubt that would be the source of the problem?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated =).
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