Bad power?

[striker]

Hey guys, first off I am new to building computers, so you'll have to bear with this question. This is my system:

Asus A7V
AMD Athlon 1Ghz
256 mb ram
Asus v7700 GEForce 2
IBM 30 GB hd
Toshiba DVD
Sound Blaster Live! Value
10/100 mb network card

Okay, obviously you can tell this is very similar to the pc that Tom had in his guide. I put everything together and turned it on and the system loaded up. I thought everthing was working fine, until I looking inside and saw that the fan for the processor wasn't moving. I shut it down, checked all of the connections and tried again. Nothing. I thought maybe it was a power thing, so I changed the power switch from 115 to 230, and the fan immediately started spinning, but nothing else would turn on. So I switched it back too 115 and now I am back where I started.

When I ordered the power supply they said it was AMD certified 300W power source, but now I am wondering if they screwed me on it. What should I do?

Thanks,
Sean

 

[Guest]

You have almost the exact system I do.

Sounds like the p/s is not acting right... or... 300W is the minimum AMD recomends, I would sugest returning the P/S and exchance it for a more powerful one.

I just bought a Enermax 430W P/S for $80 and am very pleased with it.

 

[dhlucke]

I've said this before, but some of these jerk suppliers sell powersupplies with ratings based on peak to peak voltages. Basically that is a gimic. So in reality it is possible that your powersupply is much less since it is really a rms value that matters.

If you don't understand this, it means that they are rating the p/s on a voltage you will never get from your wall.

The switch on your p/s shouldn't be played with since we have a set voltage in the US and they have a set voltage in Europe etc. The setting there depends on where you live....

 

[FUGGER]

$80 is great for the price/performance ratio.

Now that you save $1.50 and your system still doesnt work, was it worth it?

To top it all off, your guessing at what is gonna fix the problem. go ahead and spend $80 bucks on PSU and maybe that will fix it =P

 

[Guest]

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[FUGGER]

I would also replace the CPU, it would prevent system from starting up too.

Vendors put RMA'd burnt AMD cpu's back on the shelf for resale, might be what you got.

 

[Sojourn]

Um, are you suggesting a pIII 1GHz with no CPU fan would work better? I personally don't see what a bad power supply has to do with price/performance ratio, or AMD and Intel. You should at least keep your Anti-AMDisms to relevant posts.


/Athlon-1.2GHz@1266MHz(133MHz*9.5)/Asus_A7V133/

 

[phsstpok]

I think we need more information.

You said, "I thought everthing was working fine, until I looking inside and saw that the fan for the processor wasn't moving". Do you mean the the system actually booted but just the CPU fan wasn't working? If this is the case check the power connection for the fan by reseating the connector. Maybe the fan itself is faulty.

Don't move the power supply switch to 230. That is for 230 volt power not regular house current. It won't hurt anything but it won't work that way either.

 

[striker]

Thanks, I'll try that. I hope the company that sold me my original p/s will give me a refund.

Sean