Inadaquate psu causeing random errors? or half formatted harddrive.

ponderosa · 11-02-2006, 05:00 AM

asus m2n32 sli Deluxe running a Radeon x1900 XT gpu
4x mushkin 512 pc2 5300
Thermaltake TR2 W0070 430W
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB
sony dvdrw drive
K i just keep getting random errors and blue screens. Extensive loading times, and freezing during loading in basically any program. Freezing during scandisk and defrag. ...with a dash of (occaisionally) non responsive mice and thumbdrives. Choppy sound quality and incomplete sounds (which if i might add, wouldn't even BEGIN to be better than how crappy i hear my sound drivers really are.

Im thinking its my psu
Or,
is it my harddrive which i accidentally reset during a deep(long) format. I currently have reinstalled windows three times. The computer runs... but like no quality i would ever approve of.

what could my problem be?

Burgerbob · 11-02-2006, 05:08 AM

I would look at the poor inadequate PSU first, it doesnt look like enough watts to run that much at once. Try taking out a bunch of stuff like two sticks of RAM, your DVD drive, etc. to see if it works better, but ill bet you need a better PSU period.

**Cromewell** · 11-02-2006, 06:17 AM

Yes, the PSU can cause a lot of problems that can be hard to diagnose. It could also be bad RAM, although RAM errors can be caused by a bad PSU as well.

11-02-2006, 05:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
ponderosa New Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 5	Inadaquate psu causeing random errors? or half formatted harddrive. asus m2n32 sli Deluxe running a Radeon x1900 XT gpu 4x mushkin 512 pc2 5300 Thermaltake TR2 W0070 430W Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB sony dvdrw drive K i just keep getting random errors and blue screens. Extensive loading times, and freezing during loading in basically any program. Freezing during scandisk and defrag. ...with a dash of (occaisionally) non responsive mice and thumbdrives. Choppy sound quality and incomplete sounds (which if i might add, wouldn't even BEGIN to be better than how crappy i hear my sound drivers really are. Im thinking its my psu Or, is it my harddrive which i accidentally reset during a deep(long) format. I currently have reinstalled windows three times. The computer runs... but like no quality i would ever approve of. what could my problem be?

11-02-2006, 05:08 AM	#2 (permalink)
Burgerbob Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Private Island Age: 18 Posts: 2,515	I would look at the poor inadequate PSU first, it doesnt look like enough watts to run that much at once. Try taking out a bunch of stuff like two sticks of RAM, your DVD drive, etc. to see if it works better, but ill bet you need a better PSU period. __________________ MY Computer AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Black Edition, Zalman 9700 4096Mb Patriot Viper, ASUS M3N78 Pro 750GB Seagate HDD, eVGA GeForce 8800GT w/Akimbo Antec Three Hundred Logitech MX Revolution, UltraX Media Hanns-G 19in 5ms EEEPC 4G, 1GB RAM, 4GB SD card

11-02-2006, 06:17 AM	#3 (permalink)
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