You can read the original post below. At any rate, the problem was a couple of very silly things:
1. I didn't hook up the 2nd fdd extra power thing to mobo described in the board layout section but not in the sli section
2. The way I was closing my case was catching on the cords and making THE CORDS COME LOSE/unplugged. Yeah thats a biggy...
3. The dvi connector was coming lose too b/c I never screwed it down.
4. Oh yeah, I also managed to either get too much air in my water cooling tubes or forget to plug the pump back in b/c I had one start where the computer locked up and then shut off...i smell burning...open it up..realized the pump wasn't going...and the waterblock is about 2390483 degrees. But I think the cpu is ok. Happened when i was changing all the cords around.
So for the last few days:
-wednesday to thursday: sata=1 me=0
-the last 7 hours: sli=1 me=0
But at last I triumph over my machine! For now....
Original:
Ok, I've got some spare stuff b/c I'm building a computer for a friend, so I thought I'd try sling my system with 2 identical evga 7800 gts to see how it looks. I keep getting the not enough power error, but I feel like there is enough since these are pretty good psus and i don't have too much stuff hooked up. I hooked power up to both vcs, and hooked a 4 pin molex up to the mobo (in addition to whats already going into it), so it's not that. Using these 2 psus:
First I tried
(enermax) EG651p-ve puts out 36 amps on 1 12 volt rail, rated at 550 watts total power
Enermax dunno model number but its 2 rails with 18 amps each and 535 total power. This one actually has 2 pci connectors and I'm pretty sure its certified by nvidia.
Both psus would fail when i put a cd into the cd drive. It would try to autoplay and my screen would freeze up, stop responding, go really slow, etc. I turn the computer off, and then when I reboot, windows starts, then it tells me theres not enough power so it reduced what the cards do, then i get artifacts all over the screen--I restart again, and then there are artifacts when the computer first starts and the monitor goes on.
Especially weird--with the 2nd one, I was able to explore the call of duty 2 cd, install it to make sure I had the latest one on and then enter the game and run around for a while. Then I put in a new cd and the process described above occured
Here's what I've got hooked up:
2 evga 7800 gt
athlon 64 3500+
dfi lanparty sli dr
2 512 sticks of ram
1 water pump hooked up to 4 pin molex
2 fans on 4 pin molex
1 other fan on mobo fan connector
1 sata hd (no raid)
I'm not overclocking anything (while testing this)
Anyone have any thoughts? I am thinking I must be missing some major thing like something else I need to plug in somewhere. Thanks....
edit: oh yeah theres an audigy 2 value in there too
edit2: oh yeah and a dvd drive obvoiusly on 4 pin molex
edit3: ok I just read the mobo directions more closely and they hid the information that you also plug in an additional fdd type molex into the mobo for sli. Put it in the section about power instead of sli. The bastards. I'm gonna try that.
1. I didn't hook up the 2nd fdd extra power thing to mobo described in the board layout section but not in the sli section
2. The way I was closing my case was catching on the cords and making THE CORDS COME LOSE/unplugged. Yeah thats a biggy...
3. The dvi connector was coming lose too b/c I never screwed it down.
4. Oh yeah, I also managed to either get too much air in my water cooling tubes or forget to plug the pump back in b/c I had one start where the computer locked up and then shut off...i smell burning...open it up..realized the pump wasn't going...and the waterblock is about 2390483 degrees. But I think the cpu is ok. Happened when i was changing all the cords around.
So for the last few days:
-wednesday to thursday: sata=1 me=0
-the last 7 hours: sli=1 me=0
But at last I triumph over my machine! For now....
Original:
Ok, I've got some spare stuff b/c I'm building a computer for a friend, so I thought I'd try sling my system with 2 identical evga 7800 gts to see how it looks. I keep getting the not enough power error, but I feel like there is enough since these are pretty good psus and i don't have too much stuff hooked up. I hooked power up to both vcs, and hooked a 4 pin molex up to the mobo (in addition to whats already going into it), so it's not that. Using these 2 psus:
First I tried
(enermax) EG651p-ve puts out 36 amps on 1 12 volt rail, rated at 550 watts total power
Enermax dunno model number but its 2 rails with 18 amps each and 535 total power. This one actually has 2 pci connectors and I'm pretty sure its certified by nvidia.
Both psus would fail when i put a cd into the cd drive. It would try to autoplay and my screen would freeze up, stop responding, go really slow, etc. I turn the computer off, and then when I reboot, windows starts, then it tells me theres not enough power so it reduced what the cards do, then i get artifacts all over the screen--I restart again, and then there are artifacts when the computer first starts and the monitor goes on.
Especially weird--with the 2nd one, I was able to explore the call of duty 2 cd, install it to make sure I had the latest one on and then enter the game and run around for a while. Then I put in a new cd and the process described above occured
Here's what I've got hooked up:
2 evga 7800 gt
athlon 64 3500+
dfi lanparty sli dr
2 512 sticks of ram
1 water pump hooked up to 4 pin molex
2 fans on 4 pin molex
1 other fan on mobo fan connector
1 sata hd (no raid)
I'm not overclocking anything (while testing this)
Anyone have any thoughts? I am thinking I must be missing some major thing like something else I need to plug in somewhere. Thanks....
edit: oh yeah theres an audigy 2 value in there too
edit2: oh yeah and a dvd drive obvoiusly on 4 pin molex
edit3: ok I just read the mobo directions more closely and they hid the information that you also plug in an additional fdd type molex into the mobo for sli. Put it in the section about power instead of sli. The bastards. I'm gonna try that.
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