PSU Compatible?

AdL2 · 19 Mar 2006 at 12:04

I have a Asus TA-210 case which comes with a 360 W PSU.

As shown here:

Asus TA-210 Series Midi Tower (Black) - 360W PSU (CA-004-AS)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/OcUK_Value_Cases.html

I want to know if it will be compatible with the following motherboard:

Gigabyte K8N SLi nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-040-GI)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Gigabyte_Socket_939.html

I notice it says ATX v2.0 compliant PSU Required for PCI-E Graphics/Motherboard. I have previously been using the psu with this motherboard:

Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ASUS_Socket_939.html

There did not seem to be any power problems, but it kept giving annoying fan speed messages. So i just want to get rid of it and replace it with the gigabyte one.

The rest of the spec is:

AMD Athlon64 3200 Venice
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel
256MB DDR3 ASUS EXTREME 6600GT PCX SLI
Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE 250GB 7200RPM SATA2/300 16MB

Thanks.

semi-pro waster · 19 Mar 2006 at 12:45

As far as I am aware it isn't an ATX 2.0 compliant PSU which is probably the problem so I'd check that before replacing the motherboard. For it to be ATX 2.0 compliant it should have a 24pin plug for the motherboard and a 6pin plug for the graphics card amongst other more minor issues.

AdL2 · 19 Mar 2006 at 19:14

Do you think so?

Sayin that it does actually make sense. Unfortunately i didnt buy the board from OcUK and the place i did buy it off didnt inform me i needed a ATX 2.0 PSU.

Thing is though the only problem has been fan speed messages. They are more of an inconvenience than anything. Still enough of one to make me wanna sort it though.

ToLearn · 19 Mar 2006 at 20:10

i have that motherboard gigabyte and you would be better of getting a 400watt plus psu ATX 2.0 very stable motherboard im useing a tagen 430watt psu with it and no problmes at all

AdL2 · 31 Mar 2006 at 18:34

In the end i got the PSU but the Asus motherboard was still doing the annoying fan error on every boot. So i decided to get the gigabyte motherboard.

Now if i am using a SATA drive to boot off should i be able to just swap all the parts into the new motherboard and boot straight into windows?

I tried doing this but it dosnt seem to be recognising the SATA drive to boot off. It just goes straight to the NVIDIA Boot agent text and then eventually asks me for the boot disk.

I am going to flash the bios now and see what happens.