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Power Issues?

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brianafischer

Senior member
Well,

I can't really find any info about this online and I am in search of a quick fix. I have a 2 year old computer:

MS Windows 2000 SP1
AMD K7 800MHz
2x256MB Infineon PC100 SDRAM
BOOT PARTITION: 2x30GB IBM 7200RPM GXP HD RAID 0 running of a promise RAID card installed in a PCI slot
1x100GB WD 7200RPM HD ATA-100 running off a motherboard IDE Primary Master
1xPlextor 12x10x32 CD-RW running off motherboard ATA-66 Primary Master
1xNEC ND-1100A DVD+RW running off motherboard ATA-66 Secondary Master
Monitor 1: AGP ATI AIW 128
Monitor 2: PCI 3dfx Voodoo 3
Netgear PCI 10/100MB LAN
Creative Sound Blaster
300W ATX Sparkle PS

Can't pull the MB name off the top of my head... Anyways, here is what I have observed. A few months ago, I would press the power button on the front of the case, and the display would not initiate (no BIOS check, just a black screen and the monitor displayed it was getting no signal from the video card). Once powered on, if I waited a few seconds and reset the computer via the reset button on the front of the case the computer would work fine. I assumed that this might be the PS isn't supply sufficient start-up current to the MB, but once reset is somehow did. The voltage levels appear fine in the BIOS.. However, now the computer will no longer boot up everytime using this method. Sometimes it will get past the BIOS and freeze before loading windows... So I pulled of the NIC card and unplugged my CD-Burner and the problem didn't seem to change. There is so much hardware in this computer that it could be a million things, but I am thinking it might be the power supply?

Any advice?

Thanks,
Brian
 
it seems that you might have a weee bit too much for the power supply (IMO). you can just upgrade it if you got the $$$ but first i think you need to get basic with it. strip it down to 1 vid card , 1 stick memory . see if it wil post . then add you hard drive and try to boot. go untill you find something that doesn't work. just make sure you make ONE change only at a time.
good luck
 
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