Help with 9500np and booting

[midnightrat]

Hi, not sure if this should go in the video forum, but I thought I'd try here first.

Just picked up a used ati 9500np, poped it into my system, hit the power button, and nothing happened. At first I was very worried, so I poped in my original video card, voodoo3 2000 (yeah it's old, but it was the only one I could throw in there till I got the 9500) and everthing started up fine. So I plugged the 9500 back in and tried to turn on the system. Again nothing happened, so I unplugged the power connector to the 9500 and tried turning it back on. This time, everything started up but about 2 sec into it, my mb started to beep like crazy and no video.

I'm figuring that my current psu just doesn't kick out enough juice for all my components, which I don't think is that much, but here's what I got in my system at the moment;

xp2400+ running stock speed
large oem hs/fan for cpu
1 stick 512 mb ddr2100
1 stick 256 mb ddr2100
1 cd-rw 52x24x52x
1 45gb ibm hdd
1 120gb wd hdd
1 sb live value
1 generic nic

all running off a 300watt psu.

Is the 9500 known to suck up alot of electricity? Do I need to upgrade my psu? Might it not be my psu but something else?

Thanks

Young

 

[amdskip]

all running off a 300watt psu.

I'm pretty sure this is your problem. Is it just a generic no name power supply?

 

[Homerboy]

PSU all the way

 

[midnightrat]

Yup, was the psu, i poped in a 350 and everything is happy now.