SILENT PC WOES - do you know?

[james_blonde007]

Hi all,
I bought a new fan less SPARKLE PSU to go in my IPcop Firewall that is switched on 24/7. After 10 mins of being switched on the PC started rebooting itself.
I found the following.
When either a CD drive or an HD was attached by themselves....
As soon as either type of drive attempted to spin up the system would reboot.
I could not feel any excessive amounts of heat.

Is my new fan less PSU knackered and not supplying the correct voltage or what? Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts?

I have reconnected the old (noisy) PSU and the system is fine.

Its running on an old PII 400, (my very first PC).

- The only noise it generates are from the PSU (old 300 watt job) and the brand new 40 gig western digital HD.
- The PII CPU has a huge heatsink on it and does not require a fan (it has be running for years now without any problems.
- The mobo has a northbridge heatsink on it and also does not require a fan.

1x CD drive
1x MOBO
3x 128mb sticks of the old PC100 SDRAM
1x 40gig western digital HD
1x Standard ATI AGP rage pro Graphics card.
3x Network cards PCI

 

[hartty]

Try this to see if your new sparkle is powerfull enough http://www.extreme.outervision.com/index.jsp

Ps mit does seem like the psu i shafted

 

[james_blonde007]

It recommended 197 watts and that was with a P4 willamette 1400 (lowest pentium I could find in the list.
The FSP Sparkle FSP300-60GNF Zen Noiseless 300W ATX2.0 PSU is rated at 300 watts.

 

[hartty]

you are well under then so it sounds like a dodgy psu mate