Can running too many PCs in one room cause hard crashes?

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ArmyofHarmony

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My friend just assembled a new PC for me... and its currently round his house where they have been trying to get it working properly.

Basically, after setting it all up, it wasnt working and the onboard sound was giving a ram beep error. Turns out I needed a new PSU so we ran down to the local comp shop and bought a 500W psu, instead of a 350 watt.

Now, hes saying mine and his system were both hard crashing, and said it could be cause they were drawing too much power from the room?

Can that be a reason for crashing?
 
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If you were drawing too much power you would trip the breakers.

Unless theyre all plugged into the same extention
 
ArmyofHarmony said:
My friend just assembled a new PC for me... and its currently round his house where they have been trying to get it working properly.

Basically, after setting it all up, it wasnt working and the onboard sound was giving a ram beep error. Turns out I needed a new PSU so we ran down to the local comp shop and bought a 500W psu, instead of a 350 watt.

Now, hes saying mine and his system were both hard crashing, and said it could be cause they were drawing too much power from the room?

Can that be a reason for crashing?
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Not possible, all that would happen is that you would trip your loop through overload but that would take a lot of doing, certainly more than switchingon a couple of computers.
 
My spec is

athlon venice 3800+ 64bit
Geforce 7300GS
1 gig of kingston pc3200 ram

DFI lanpartyUT RDX200

The power supply we bought from a local shop is just a generic 500 watt power supply...



Its STILL crashing, and its nothing to do with the power we think.

Sometimes it crashes before loading windows, other times during running windows.

any ideas?
 
Its a completely new install, everything new


btw, we ran memtest, it crashed after a while though... but had no errors up until the crash.

Currently running the computer with my mates ram in here... seeing how long it takes to crash... s ofar so good.

Downloading 3dmark to stress test it.


Does it matter if the PSU power lead has 20 pins when the motherboard takes 24?
 
Ideally use a convertor, but apparently 20 pin connection works fine, but never tried it myself, used a £3 convertor cable.

If you have 2 pc's with parts there, you should have narrowed it down somewhat already.

Hope the memory tests prove useful.
 
ArmyofHarmony said:
Its a completely new install, everything new


btw, we ran memtest, it crashed after a while though... but had no errors up until the crash.

Currently running the computer with my mates ram in here... seeing how long it takes to crash... s ofar so good.

Downloading 3dmark to stress test it.


Does it matter if the PSU power lead has 20 pins when the motherboard takes 24?
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Dont think it makes much difference for that spec, my old parents had a similar setup and only had it with a 20 pin untill that psu died lol
 
A kettle uses about 3000w, so that's about the equivalent of 15 PCs all on, playing games. So your friend is a bit clueless.
 
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