Power Supply Problem?

[mattg3]

Dear Everyone,

I've built a new system for the first time in a while and am having trouble. My components are:

1. DFI Lanparty Ultra;
2. ATI 800xl;
3. Two 37 gig raptors in Raid 0;
4. one WD Cavier 80 gig;
5. Audigy II;
6. DVD drive;
7. CD Burner;
8. floppy;
9. Two OCZ Platinum 512 meg chips (swapping with 2 256 meg Corsair Platinum XMS); and
10. 3 120 mm fans (Antec p180 case).

I have a Antec TruePower II 430 Watt power supply. I can't run the 2 OCZ platinum chips together at the same time (numerous reboots, blue screens o' death, etc). I can run either OCZ chip independently. I can run both Corsair chips together without problems.

Interestingly, I can sometimes boot to safe mode with the 2 OCZ chips installed. Under my hardware in Control Panel, I see a yellow exclamation pointed service which says something like 'ups power supply' or something close to that (it's been a while since I have been able to boot with two chips to that stage).

Is it possible my power supply does not have enough juice for this system? It doesn't seem likely but all indications seem to be pointing in that direction. I RMAed my first pair of OCZ chips figuring since the Corsair was problem free, it must be a memory issue, now I'm not so sure.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Matt Gumaer

 

[Fern]

Hi Matt and Welcome to the Forums!

Unless that Antec is faulty I think it should fine. Have a look at the voltage rails (in BIOS etc) and make sure they at/within spec.

Might wanna checkout whether that mobo has a known compatibilty problem with the OCZ. I assume it at least PC3200. What are the timings? May need to loosen 'em up.

Seems odd that booting to safe mode works. Have you run memtest86+?

Fern

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

What CPU is this? And can anyone be sure 430 is enough? I for one believe it's enough wattage.

 

[mattg3]

Thanks for the replies. I found a site www.bleedingedge.com that has OCZ support forums. Come to find out, with the Lanparty Ultra, my OCZ Platinum 3200 will not run at the default settings (nor will virtually any other OCZ ram). A lot of manual tweaking (I've never seen so many custimizable options) and my memory seems to be working fine. I'm still not sure yet what a 'tref' setting is but modifying mine seemed to make all the difference.


Matt