Trying to sort out my brother's PC that he bought online many years ago. A variety of problems that may all be caused by the same crappy component:
- Sometimes mainboard won't POST.
- Had a red warning across the top saying graphics has insufficient power and constant beeping.
- Monitor complains has no signal (tried DVI and VGA cables).
- Monitor loses signal while in Windows (and BIOS) and I have to reboot to get it back.
It's the floppy drive. amiright?
So I suppose you might want to know the specs.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 on an ASUS P5N-E SLI and 4 GB DDR2. At the moment there is an ASUS HD 4850 512MB installed, but I found an old XFX GTX 260 896 MB card and thought great, I'll swap that out and get a small graphics performance boost and maybe try and see if that improves things.
And now we get to the villain of the piece. The PSU is a Win Power ATX-700. Non-modular and only a single 6-pin PCI-E. The GTX 260 requires 2 x 6/8-pin.
So I am thinking most, if not all of the problems could be caused by a dodgy/cheap PSU so let's replace that and see.
So, looking for a quality modular 80+ (gold?) PSU for the above components (with some headroom) at a reasonable price. If it came with long cables would be nice.
Cheers.
- Sometimes mainboard won't POST.
- Had a red warning across the top saying graphics has insufficient power and constant beeping.
- Monitor complains has no signal (tried DVI and VGA cables).
- Monitor loses signal while in Windows (and BIOS) and I have to reboot to get it back.
It's the floppy drive. amiright?
So I suppose you might want to know the specs.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 on an ASUS P5N-E SLI and 4 GB DDR2. At the moment there is an ASUS HD 4850 512MB installed, but I found an old XFX GTX 260 896 MB card and thought great, I'll swap that out and get a small graphics performance boost and maybe try and see if that improves things.
And now we get to the villain of the piece. The PSU is a Win Power ATX-700. Non-modular and only a single 6-pin PCI-E. The GTX 260 requires 2 x 6/8-pin.
So I am thinking most, if not all of the problems could be caused by a dodgy/cheap PSU so let's replace that and see.
So, looking for a quality modular 80+ (gold?) PSU for the above components (with some headroom) at a reasonable price. If it came with long cables would be nice.
Cheers.
