Desktop powers off after hard drive rev

[HackThis]

Hi,

I just transferred an older desktop into a new asus koolance case. The case has 1 water pump and control panel w/ an lcd and temp controls. i have 1 DVD+- RW combo drive. one dvd rom, and one 52x cd-rw drives. The desktop also has a cardreader and front usb and audio. the case has 4 neon 80mm fans (independantly temp controlled) 1 90mm fan, and a cpu fan. 2 neon ligts with a control unit, and the AC cooler also has 3 fans. All fans are brushless. The mobo is an old socket A with an athlon 64 3200 overcloked to 3.6GHz (mechainical chip- no bios overclock) 1GB DDr-333 Ram (2x 512). Nvidia gforce 4 chipset w integrated an and 7 usb ports, 2 120GB 6200 RPM seagate hard drives...ALL on a 350 watt PSU oh and a evga Nvidia Gforce 7300GT ex 16. I think the PSU is too small, but even after unplugging the Ac unit and all the fans except the cpu fan the thing still shits off. i also have to unplug the PSU and reset the CMOS for the comp to turn on agian

 

[Harvey]

First, please fix or learn to use the < Enter > key on your keyboard. My mother warned me trying to read run-on text like your post. She said, if I didn't stop it, I'd go blind. :shocked:

It sounds your power supply is inadequate and shutting down. I wouldn't be comfortable with even a known top of the line 350 watt supply with that compiment of gear. I'd want at least 450 - 500 watts for an Athlon 64 and the rest of that system.

Try another supply. If that works, you'll have your answer.