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Power supply problem in boot up

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PavlovsDog

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I need some help before i send anything back. Here is the problem:

On bootup i get a bsod before windows xp boots up and it says that there was an internal power failure. I thought maybe my power supply was going and seeing that i had a crap load of stuff plugged into it I unplugged everything i could. It would boot up 3 in 4 times but give me the error 1 in 4. Once it was in windows it would run stable for hours! I left it on for probably a day and played games and stuff and never had a problem.

Now i can't get in at all. It freezes up. if i boot up on safe mode it freezes up on Agp440 or something like that.

Has anyone seen this before? It is it in fact the powersupply? Thanks.
 
You don`t list your board,cpu specs or PSU that you`re using however I would change the PSU as the first step to see if the problem does go away,go with a good quality brand like Antec,Enermax,Sparkle etc. PSUs can go faulty in many different ways,I had a PSU that would boot up fine but power off at random times after a hour or so ,it too was a faulty PSU.

Btw welcome to AT forums.
 
Sorry here are my specs

Abit it7 w/ P4 1.6a at 1.6 (right now)
512Mb 333 ddr ram
330w power supply (i beliebe enermax but i will check later for sure)
2x40 gb hd's
dvd
cd-rw
geforce 4 4200
sb live 5.1

hope this helps with something
 
330w should be fine however it could be faulty,so might be a good time to replace it and won`t do no harm if you get one (quality PSU like Antec,Enermax etc)with a higher wattage like 350w or so.

I was also thinking you might have a AGP power problem with your GF4 card,check your bios and see if it allows AGP voltage increase or try a different AGP card and see if that helps but being your card was fine before I would rule this out,anyway changing the PSU would be my first step..

 
I tried it out with another powersupply. The harddrive was corrupt but i was able to boot up to another hard drive and recover a little data since my last backup and i reinstalled and it's working fine. I will RMA the powersupply now and probably buy a new better powersupply as well.

Thanks.
 
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