eMachines too small PSU?

Theblackoutow

Theblackoutow

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Okay, so I got a call from my brother a few days ago about a computer I gave him. This is a 3-4 year old computer, here are the specifications http://consumer.hardocp.com/images/articles/1149715592JxNbJVHbfn_1_2.gif .
So, after 2 years of use, it had become super slow, and bad video card, and low ram, so my grandfathers son put a new video card(Nvidia 8500GT) in, and put 3 gig's of ram in. It ran fine for the entire time I had it, but the other day my brother called me and said the screen was displaying a lot of weird colors, I had had issues saying the card wasn't getting enough power to power it correctly, but I always just ignored them. So when I got their, I immediately new it was the GPU, so I call up my grandfathers son, and just making sure the computer had a integrated GPU before I took the 8500GT out, and he said their was an integrated GPU, so I took the 8500GT out and the computer ran fine. But I'm wondering what went wrong that the PSU just finally stopped letting the graphics card work. Now, I was just thinking about something, when I opened the case, and unscrewed the GPU and looked at it, I saw the a wire coming off the card, this was a wire from the fans GPU to GPU's board, that wasn't plugged in. So does it make sense that was happening because the card was over heating?
 
8500GT shouldn't need power connectors. Do you know exactly what wattage the Emachine's power supply was? The 8500GT isn't really a demanding card, but i guess running it for long periods of time on the Emachine could have worn the PSU out.
 
I had that happen in an older computer a while back. My computer kept telling me that it wasn't getting enough power, which was odd because the specs said that it didn't need any additional connections from the PSU.


Step 1: If you say this wire "isn't" hooked up to the fan like it should be, then odds are the card got fried. Check step two if you want to see if there is another way to fix this issue.

Step 2: check and see if there is an extra plug in on the GPU, if so and if you dont have any PCIexpress connectors on your power supply, you can go to your local best buy or something and get a molex to PCIexpress connector and hook it up that way.

Same problem happened, and step2 worked for me.

Good luck :good:
 
I also doubt that it's the PSU. If that extra wire has two or three pins, though, DEFINITELY plug it in to its compatible plug on the video card. If it came with a fan, IT NEEDS IT. I'm guessing that it really did overheat.
 
that is the psu world's chinese penis. too small and shite quality. oh and before any mod jumps on me, source: http://www.sizesurvey.com/result.html note Figure 6 - asian men have the least 'well endowed' and most 'modest' (lowest category) penis's of all races. .... btw this is not racism, its a gross generalisation based on factual evidence...anyway off topic lol

Under no circumstances is that PSU adequete. You need 26A on the 12V rail plus quality to run any PCIe gpu.
 
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