Video Card???

[PleasurePaulie64]

I have the following PC.

P4 2.6C @ 3Ghz.
2x HDD
2x CD/DVD
Asus P4P 800 Mainboard - Have not updaded the bios.
1.5GB Ram.
300W PSU..Generic.


Anyway, I just got myself a 6600GT AGP card. As soon as I put it in, everything was running fine.

Except when I got into a Game, my PC crashed, and then would not even get pass the boot stage sometimes, let alone boot into windows in safe mode. I had this problem a little while ago, but it would atleast boot into windows safe mode then, suggesting it was a corruption of windows rather then a hardware fault. It took about 15 reboots until it would load windows again finally without crashing at the loading screen the last time it screwed up.

I'm on the idea that my PSU is probably whats doing this? As the card requires an extra molex plug to be connected up.

Does this sound right? Or could something else be screwing up?

 

[Leros]

The wimpy PSU might be causing the problem. 300w is fine from a good company. But the 300w on your generic PSU means it gets a max of 300w, as in it is actually less than 300w.

Try a new PSU.

 

[daake07]

My first guess would be the powersupply also. Since your running 2 CD-drives and 2 hard drives, that 6600GT was the step over.

Unplug whatever non-essentials you don't need such as one of the hard drives, and one of the Cd rom drives and see what your voltages are. Post your voltages and we can go from there.

 

[Shortass]

Don't overclock and see what happens, or even try underclocking. If it works then, it's probably a power problem.

 

[w00t]

sounds like psu or too high of a clock. maybe even temps