Second
01-19-2002, 03:32 AM
Let me tell you all the whole story...
I went to a LAN a few weeks ago, and while I was playing around, my PC just stopped. After much messing around, I found that the PSU was dead, and thanks to a helpful LANner with a spare one, I got it going again.
A few days later, I was at home playing RTCW and it happened again... Dead PSU. I ripped out the new PSU I had just bought, returned it, got a replacement, put it in, works fine. At this point I was getting damn suspicious.
So today, playing RTCW again, it happens again... the box just stops. What the f*** is going on? Each time I've checked all around the box, no burns or weird smells. A few days before the initial break down, I installed a second Harddisk, using up all available power cords from my 300 watt PSU. Could this be the problem? the disk works fine, could I be putting too much load on the PSUs? Its an Athlon 1.2 gig with CDROM, DVDROM, and two 20gig drives. All the times its happened, its been fairly hot (30+ degrees celcius)... Any ideas? I cant live without my PC!
I went to a LAN a few weeks ago, and while I was playing around, my PC just stopped. After much messing around, I found that the PSU was dead, and thanks to a helpful LANner with a spare one, I got it going again.
A few days later, I was at home playing RTCW and it happened again... Dead PSU. I ripped out the new PSU I had just bought, returned it, got a replacement, put it in, works fine. At this point I was getting damn suspicious.
So today, playing RTCW again, it happens again... the box just stops. What the f*** is going on? Each time I've checked all around the box, no burns or weird smells. A few days before the initial break down, I installed a second Harddisk, using up all available power cords from my 300 watt PSU. Could this be the problem? the disk works fine, could I be putting too much load on the PSUs? Its an Athlon 1.2 gig with CDROM, DVDROM, and two 20gig drives. All the times its happened, its been fairly hot (30+ degrees celcius)... Any ideas? I cant live without my PC!