Inadaquate psu causeing random errors? or half formatted harddrive.

[ponderosa]

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]

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]

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.