Gfx card problems, bad ps?

[bastardman]

I had a GeForce 3 in my system that worked fine for almost a year. But then I started geting garbage graphics in all of my 3d games. I formatted my harddrive, and the problems continued, so I knew it must be hardware related. I tried the card in another system and found that the GF3 was fine, I put a GeForce 2 in the computer and that did work, for a month or so, but now I'm starting to get garbage with it. Our house is a freezer, and I have a lot of cooling so I don't think it's heat, and I don't know how it could be a hardware conflict because everything worked together for almost a year. The only guess anyone has been able to give me is a failing power supply. I'm not sure how to test if this is deffinitely the problem (I don't have an extra ps to try). I'm going to buy another one, but I thought I'd see if you agree that this is the problem.

My system -
350 Enermax PS
ASUS A7M266 MB
1.4 Athlon 266
Hercules Game Theater XP
2 disk drives (dvd and 12Xcdr)
2 Harddrives (12GB and 60GB)

 

[bastardman]

Anyone? Buy a new PS?

 

[ejsmith2]

Yeah.

That PSU is pretty strapped with all that stuff you've got in it. Definately get a 400w, but I'd go with 450 or above, if it was me.

"I personally think filesystems should be rewritten from scratch every 5 years..." --- Hans Reiser