Problem with Power Supply I believe

[Pryan85]

I just built my computer and I guess my problem is that when I turn on my computer it will shut off about a second later. I was worried it was my cpu but when I disconnected my DVD burner the computer started and went to the motherboard setup screen. Here are my specs:

AMD 64 3200+
ASUS K8V Motherboard
420W powersupply
Radeon 9600
250 GB Hard Drive
512 MB RAM

Where I'm stumped is that I would assume a 420W powersupply should be sufficient. Am I wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

 

[edfair]

Your DVD shouldn't be pulling enough to shut it down. Try pulling the power on all the drives, then hook up the DVD by itself. If it still kills it, pull the ribbon cable. Seems more likely something in the DVD is a problem.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Pryan85]

I'm not sure what the problem was. I did what you said and unplugged some wires and the computer was working fine so I plugged in some new data wires and now it's up and running. Thanks for the help.

 

[AckNack]

Sometimes when you connect the data cable backwards (red stripe away from pin 1) on a CD-ROM, this will happen.

Maybe that was it and when you hooked it back you got the red stripe correct (next to the power connector)

AckNack

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[Pryan85]

I think that's probably what happened. Thanks for all the help.