Power Supply Problems

[pocketdemon]

I've got a chepie case with a 250 Watt Transworld power supply (who the hell knows what that is?) In it I've got an Athlon 500 o/c to 550 with a PCI TNT, an ISA modem, a NIC, and Dual Voodoos, one harddrive, one CDROM, one CDRW. When I first built the system, everything was great. It ran fine no problems nothing. Then I bought my CDRW and again - no problems everything was dandy. Then all of a sudden my system started to lock on me. After it locked I needed to restart it like 3 times before it would boot properly. It tooke me a week to figure out that I lacked power. So I yanked out a Voodoo and everything was good again. A couple of days ago the same thing started to happen just a lot less frequently. I launched a game of Diablo II using my Voodoo and it locked on me. After that my system started to restart itself and lock randomly.

Could this be a power problem again? Was this originally a power problem? If anyone knows any info please post.

Thanks

 

[Klosters]

I dunno if it's a power supply problem. I do know that K7's draw amperage like the big dog. AMD has a list of Athlon approved PS's on its Web site. They didn't go through the hassle of testing all those PS's just because they had time on their hands.

 

[pocketdemon]

You know, I was talking to a friend about this and we figured out that the first time all the crashes happened was because of the power supply, but now they are happening because I don't have sufficient cooling.

I stopped overclocking for now to see if anything changes and if the crashes will go away...