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I have a friend who has recently upgraded an old Gateway GP6-450 with a
Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 MB. Now he can not get the system to power up. It
has a 200w stock PS which still boots the old board. I think the power
switch might be faulty. Can it be disabled in any way?? He does not
have the manuals. Any suggestions??

Thanks
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

the_tarrasque@hotmail.com wrote:
> I have a friend who has recently upgraded an old Gateway GP6-450 with a
> Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 MB. Now he can not get the system to power up. It
> has a 200w stock PS which still boots the old board. I think the power
> switch might be faulty. Can it be disabled in any way?? He does not
> have the manuals. Any suggestions??
>
> Thanks
>

I don't believe that a 200w PSU will be capable of powering a modern
board/CPU combination.


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Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

On Thu, 26 May 2005 02:09:50 +0100, Ian <ian@nospam.net> waffled on
about something:

>the_tarrasque@hotmail.com wrote:
>> I have a friend who has recently upgraded an old Gateway GP6-450 with a
>> Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 MB. Now he can not get the system to power up. It
>> has a 200w stock PS which still boots the old board. I think the power
>> switch might be faulty. Can it be disabled in any way?? He does not
>> have the manuals. Any suggestions??
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>I don't believe that a 200w PSU will be capable of powering a modern
>board/CPU combination.

Agreed. I remember having problems with a 300w on a 1Gig Athlon! Okay,
I did have 6 hard drives 🙂

Try a bigger PSU, preferably a good make like Antec.

D0d6y.
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