Not always, babe. It can be memory, memory overvolting, memory overtiming, cpu with "hotspots" (i.e. didn't get gel covering the whole processor, hsf is askew), and it can be a northbridge overheating. It can be leaking capicators on the mainboard. I've seen one instance where it was an ass-old PIO4 24x cdrom drive.
But yeah, most of the time, it's a psu. =)
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But yeah, most of the time, it's a psu. =)
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Thanks for the tip, I tried to call ATI but they were closed for the Holiday... Columbus Day?!?!?!?... I got to get a job there geez.
You all bring up a great point on my PSU. I dont know how to tell if I got a powerful enough one for my machine. Maybe this can help:
My Computer consist of these iteams:
512 Megs Rambus 4200 Non-Ecc
Pentium 4 / 2.5 MhZ
Asus P4T533 Motherboard
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Sound Blaster Audigy plantium
Linksys 10/100 Card
Adaptec Ultra 320 SCSI Card
Teckram SCSI Card
Liteon DVD/CD Rom (IDE)
Plextor CD Burner (SCSI)
Seagate 15K rpm SCSI Harddrive
Seagate IDE Harddrive (Backup)
Standard Floppy
Tower with a 320W Max Power Supply
Also a Sony Trinitron GMD-F520 21" Monitor
Like I metioned before, at times when playing either UT2K3, or Quake 3 it will most likely come to a hard lock up/crash (even cntr/alt/del will not work). Some times it will close the game out and give a very general error but it is hard to read cause the picture is so distored and way off color (which makes me think its a viedo card issue). And other times it jsut blanks the screen and reboots on its own. Im at a complete loss on this and any feedback is welcome. I will check my power supply, but still hard to know if thats what I need, is 320W enogh for what i have?
Again I appericate an help on this issue.
You all bring up a great point on my PSU. I dont know how to tell if I got a powerful enough one for my machine. Maybe this can help:
My Computer consist of these iteams:
512 Megs Rambus 4200 Non-Ecc
Pentium 4 / 2.5 MhZ
Asus P4T533 Motherboard
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Sound Blaster Audigy plantium
Linksys 10/100 Card
Adaptec Ultra 320 SCSI Card
Teckram SCSI Card
Liteon DVD/CD Rom (IDE)
Plextor CD Burner (SCSI)
Seagate 15K rpm SCSI Harddrive
Seagate IDE Harddrive (Backup)
Standard Floppy
Tower with a 320W Max Power Supply
Also a Sony Trinitron GMD-F520 21" Monitor
Like I metioned before, at times when playing either UT2K3, or Quake 3 it will most likely come to a hard lock up/crash (even cntr/alt/del will not work). Some times it will close the game out and give a very general error but it is hard to read cause the picture is so distored and way off color (which makes me think its a viedo card issue). And other times it jsut blanks the screen and reboots on its own. Im at a complete loss on this and any feedback is welcome. I will check my power supply, but still hard to know if thats what I need, is 320W enogh for what i have?
Again I appericate an help on this issue.
According to ATI 300W is enough, only recomended even! But with that setup you might need a more powerfull power-suply.
Imagine how sales would have gone if they had anounced that their new card needs at least a 380 watt PSu to work properly.
The color problems you mentioned suggests that it might not be the PSU that´s malfunctioning. It might be the monitor, but I´ve only heard good things about Sony monitor-quality.
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Imagine how sales would have gone if they had anounced that their new card needs at least a 380 watt PSu to work properly.
The color problems you mentioned suggests that it might not be the PSU that´s malfunctioning. It might be the monitor, but I´ve only heard good things about Sony monitor-quality.
<font color=red>I´m starting to feel like a real computer consultant.</font color=red>
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