INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR

[nerp]

Think it might be a flaky/underpowered PSU? I get it on occasion on a box I have. The PSU is cheap, a flex PSU of something like 280W. It's just running an AMD 4850E low power cpu on a 780g board with no overclocking and using the IGP. Sometimes the HD doesn't detect at post and I have to power down and start back up and then its fine. My hunch is the PSU is too wimpy for my box, but not sure. Google leads me to a bunch of confused turkeys running around in circles spewing advice but offering no solutions. I figured someone here might have an idea.

 

[nerp]

:/

 

[nerp]

Poking around a bit leads me to believe my HD is slowly dying. This would be an easy repair.

 

[dangman4ever]

[Testing the PSU]
Buy and use a digital multi-meter to monitor the voltages coming from the PSU. Follow the instructions for "Using a multi-meter to check voltages":
http://www.bfgpower.com/troubleshooting.html#DMM

[Testing the Hard drive]
Download the CD image of Hitachi Drive Fitness Test, burn the ISO file to a CD, and then boot from it, just like you would do with the XP/Vista install CD. Test the hard drive and see if any problems are found. DFT will run on most manufacturers' hard drives. Alternatively, you can use Seagate's SeaTools for DOS to test a Seagate or Maxtor drive. For a Western Digital drive, you could use Data Lifeguard Tools for DOS to test a Western Digital drive.

And just for the hell of it:
[Testing the RAM]
Download Memtest86+ v2.11 or whatever the latest version is, unzip it, burn the ISO file to a CD, and then boot from it, just like you would do with the XP/Vista install CD. Let Memtest+ run for at least three hours on each stick of RAM separately as well as test the RAM all together. Go for a full 24 hours if you want to be completely sure that the RAM is not a problem. If you start seeing errors, than your RAM is defective or you have incorrect settings for the RAM.

[Testing the CPU]
Use Prime 95, OCCT, Orthos or Intel Burn Tool to stress test the CPU.