Recently my computer started locking up at various points. During games, random windows fails, on boot-up. I noticed that my power supply felt really warm. Just trying something random I unplugged my secondary hard drive thinking that if it had too much power drawn from the power supply that could be causing it to fail. Now my computer works great and the power supply runs cool. Do we think it is the hard drive or the power supply being under powered?
My system: (all less than a year old)
COOLMAX V-600 600W ATX12V Power Supply
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (two of these)
EVGA 113-M2-E113 AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 730a HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3.1GHz Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor Model ADV6000DOBOX
EVGA 512-P3-N879-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Model F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ (two of these)
LITE-ON 22X DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model iHAS222-06 LightScribe Support
Acer V193Wbd Black 19" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor
JBL DUETWHT 12 Watts 2.0 Speaker
Rosewill RFX-80 80mm Case Fan (3 of these)
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1800 MCE Kit 1128 PCI-Express x1 Interface
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit
My system: (all less than a year old)
COOLMAX V-600 600W ATX12V Power Supply
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (two of these)
EVGA 113-M2-E113 AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 730a HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3.1GHz Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor Model ADV6000DOBOX
EVGA 512-P3-N879-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Model F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ (two of these)
LITE-ON 22X DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model iHAS222-06 LightScribe Support
Acer V193Wbd Black 19" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor
JBL DUETWHT 12 Watts 2.0 Speaker
Rosewill RFX-80 80mm Case Fan (3 of these)
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1800 MCE Kit 1128 PCI-Express x1 Interface
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit