Enough power?

[Majesty]

I bought a NeoHE 430 some months ago and I am experiencing weird problems now. In fact, I get these problems since I have installed an ATi Radeon X850XT PE (I was running a 9700 Pro before).

My problem is that my SATA hard drive seems to shut down. If I access it after a while of inactivity, Windows freezes for 30 seconds and the, I can access the drive again. Do I have enough juice with 430W? Is the 16A on the 12V rail simply not enough?

My Config is as follow:
4xATA Drives (80G, 120G, 200G and 250G. Brand: Wester Digital)
1xSATA Drive (80G) (This drive uses an ABIT Serillel2 IDE SATA Adapter)
1xSCSI Drive (20G) (Seagate Barracuda)
2xSCSI CD-ROM (1xHP DVD-305S DVD-ROM, 1xYamaha CRW8824S CD-RW)
1xSATA DVD-/+RW (LG-4163B) (This drive uses an ABIT Serillel2 IDE SATA Adapter)
1xFloppy Drive
Athlon XP 2500+ Mobile @ 3200+
1G of OCZ PC3200 RAM 2-2-2-5 @ Stock Speed
ATi Radeon X850XE PT @ 560/600
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS
Adaptec 2940U/UW SCSI Card

 

[wpshooter]

My guess is with what is that 9 drives, it is very likely P/S is the problem.

I run several machines all of which have only 1 hard drive each and I run 480 P/S in them.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=PS-EN5150G This is a VG unit with some real omph on the 5V as well as the 12V. The asking price is not quite a hot deal but very warm. Full spec can be found at http://www.enhanceusa.com/ 12V combined is 28A, it is not shown in the spec. I called Enhance & they contacted Taiwan. Dang!! They just updated thier site. They build thier own and rebrand(OEM) for Silverstone. They build the Striders.

Yeah, your pushing the 12V too hard.


...Galvanized