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Power Supply causing freezes/reboots?

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jamester

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I just put together a shiny new Duron 650 system, but I'm using the old (well, brand new, but I was using it before on my PII system) power supply, which is NOT AMD approved / athlon approved, whatever that term is.

My question is: Could this be the cause of my system freezing and rebooting occasionally? It's not close to stable yet. I'm assuming that the RAM I have (256MB of PC100) is okay, since I'm keeping the FSB at 100.

Yes, I'm new to all of this. 🙂 The CPU's temperature is great - it's never went above 51C, and that was only because I was overclocking pretty high, but I've always kept a close eye on that part. (Chrome Orb in use currently, will be changing to "something else" soon).

But my main concern is that power supply... it sounds reasonable to me that if it wasn't designed to work with AMD systems, it probably might not. Am I correct in that assumption?

Thanks for any help or advice,
James
 
250 watts should be OK, but it also depends on what else you have in your system (# of HDs, # of CD-ROM/RW, # of add in cards, ect. ect.) and how much you are overclocking it.
 
I have 2 HDDs (both IDE, 1 30MB and 1 13MB), 1 CDrom, and only 2 addon cards (1 video card, 1 network card). I'm actually running fewer cards than I was with my PII setup which was rock stable.

I'm currently not overclocking at all, because I don't know enough about overclocking in general and until I get the system stable at default (650), I don't want to risk any damage to anything.

Right now the freezes are minimal: for about 5 seconds the system will freeze, then it'll go on. If I play Quake, then the system freezes up completely - only a small clip of sound repeatedly playing. (Hmmm... wonder if it may be a sound problem... I'm using the MSI K7T-Pro2A's onboard sound for now, that is one thing I'm doing differently.)

James
 
What about the OS? Had you reinstalled or at least delete all hardware from Windows property and then let Plug and Play install them again?
 
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