help, psu possibly not powerfull enough?

jackassuk56 · 1 Jun 2007 at 18:05

i have just got an asrock 4coredual vsta mobo
pentium d 925 3ghz cpu
1gb ram
and a coolermaster 430w igreen psu

i have 2 hdd''s running 2 dvd drives
3 80cm fans and 2 cold cathodes

is this psu powerful enough???

i think it isnt seeing as i can type this all on it with 2 dvd drives 2 fans the cold cathodes and 1 hardrive disconnected.

i was using it all with it all connected and then all of a sudden it shut off.

i thought there was a problem with the electric but nope. so i tried to tunr it back on, all of a sudden it turned on then off, so i looked at the light on the back and it was lit.

i dont know what this means :S

please help me

just found a program to teel me how much my computer is using

and its saying a total of estimated 159watts including the monitor (which doesnt run off of the psu.

Olly · 1 Jun 2007 at 18:09

what gfx card have you got ?

jackassuk56 · 1 Jun 2007 at 18:09

radeon 9600

pastymuncher · 1 Jun 2007 at 19:30

I would have thought that 430w would be more than enough for your rig. Maybe the psu is on it's way out though.

Olly · 1 Jun 2007 at 20:46

i agree, do you have another psu you can try ?

jackassuk56 · 1 Jun 2007 at 22:36

well we managed to get it tested and it seems to be that the ram is dodgey, as when i tried it in my mates on its own his pc booted up eventually but it was very sluggish and often failed to respond.

and when i put his ram into mine it worked right away..

could the psu have caused this or could the ram have caused the psu to detect a problem and shut off???

jackassuk56

oh and the ram will be sent back as soon as i get an rma number

also the psu is only 3weeks old.