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Huge PSU problems, I think.... Help please!

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Terranboy

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My PSU blows really hot air out the back. It shuts down only while playing UnrealII and Homeworld2. Most of the time my fans and HD remain powered but my Video card shuts down (its fan continues to spin too) I get "No Signal" on my monitor. And the other day I got a type of Blue Screen Error on WindowsXP (I thought they didn't exsist in XP) that said something about possible hardware failure, and "If this is the first time your have recieved this error please reboot now". I should have screen captured it. I know it said at the bottom "Dumping to physical memory: 1....2....3..." and so on to about 23 before I restarted.

Running....

AthlonXP2600, 512mb PC3500, 40gb 7200RPM HD, Radeon 9800 PRO (flashed), 52X CDROM, a 48x24x48 Sony CD RW, Nforce2 MSI mobo, 3 Quad LED 80mm fans, and one slot blower fan, all on a POWMAX 400W.

The two CD drives are on one cord, and everthing else is on the other (only 2) could this be a problem???

About two weeks ago I took the blower out and put in a 120mm fan and all my lighted fans were a lot dimmer, and my power button LED stopped working (not the power indicator, but a light in the button itself) So I swapped to blower back in and all is well. (except the power B LED still doesn't work)

There, thats everything I know about my problem. Need a new PSU?
 
Powmax is pretty much the crappiest PSU company in the world. Replace that piece of junk with an Antec TruePower 330 or 380 (or equivalent name-brand power supply of at least 300W) and you should be fine. If you were actually pushing your rails hard enough that your lighted fans were getting noticeably dimmer, your supply was just not up to snuff.
 
Agreed, replace that POS PSU. I replaced a generic 420W with a Fortron 350W and I can overclock higher, my system's more stable, and it's quieter.
 
"no signal" is a normal thing that monitors do. It just means that they aren't getting any input from the video card.

BSODs in XP is fairly common things. Anybody who said that they don't exist in XP were straight out lying to you and probably insanly pro-microsoft. They just occure about 1/10 of the time they did in win9x era operating systems.

Dumping to physical memory: 1....2....3..." is probably a memory dump. On decent operating systems you have memory dumps. What they are is when the OS crashes they dump the contents of your RAM to a file on your harddrive.

That way when programmers (In this case MS-only programmers) can sift thru the file and find out what went wrong.

All thesse things are normal and decent behavior for a OS running on a computer that is crapping out on a regular basis.

Every thing you described is classic PSU failure behavior. You are working your PSU WAY to hard. It will eventually ruin your computer. It is not supplying your motherboard and other componates with nice clean electricty. Weither you are exceeding the capabilities of your PSU or you just own one from a crappy manufacturer, it's immaterial.

If you keep this up you will eventually trash your motherboard and possibly every other peice of hardware you own. That is unless you PSU burns out or catches on fire or something.

This could be caused by crappy capaciters on your motherboard, too. Some koreans stole a chemical for making the chemicals in capacitors from another company. However they got it slightly wrong and it will cause them to fail.

look for bulging or leaking capacitors. They are the short fat cylinder things that stick out of your motherboard, usually in bunches. They are connected to the motherboard by 2 little wires and are stuck standing up. Usually blue or black colored.

BUT FIRST REPLACE THAT POWER SUPPLY!!!!!

Order one online. A 400 watt one will cost like 40 bucks, 50 bucks for a nice one and this will have a 75% chance of solving your problems. Remember that especially in PSU's you get what you pay for! But avoid getting ripped off, ok?


( I am using a enermax and it works great)
 
I realize what "no signal" is, my point in saying that was that my computer was on when it happened. When I'm playing Unreal II or something its like my video card shuts down.
 
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