Radeon 9700Pro, PC shutdown.

[confusedboydale]

Spec:
AMD XP 2400
512mb DDR RAM
40 and 120 GB HDD's
A7V333 Asus mobo
450PSU
1xDVD drive
1xCD RW Drive
1xUSB ADSL modem

oh and the Radeon 9700 Pro

well the joy of getting a new gfx card everything works wonders. put my new gfx card in on sunday, plaiyng joint operations till the early hours of the morning. no problems, left computer on, and came back monday nite and played it some more. just showing my dad somink with the sniper and boom, power went off and screen went blank, only that the power to everything was still on and hte mobo led was still green, but pressing the power button wouldnt turn computer back on, i had to unplug powercable and plug it back in then turn it on, ok i thort that was odd but never.

then last nite i was playing games all nite then put in hitman2 and started playing that, and the power went off, so i went to bed.
tonite came and i was playing hitman 2 for ages, and boom power went off again.

my comp hasnt done this before and ive had it for about a year, the gfx card is the only thing ive changed.

of course the usual over heating issue could be at hand, the fan spins on the gfx card, and on my cpu,
im gona buy another big case fan, any other ideas tho?

 

[jznightmare]

i think the problem is with your psu. I've experienced a similar problem once, i did not mind the problem until the computer won't turn on at all.

it usually happens when your computer is doing heavy processing which eats a lot of power, which trips your psu to shutdown because it cannot handle the stress.

if you intend to replace your psu. try to get a psu with a higher rating.

 

[confusedboydale]

yeh that sounds about rite, it tends to be when im playing games = alot of processing power being used i suppose.

 

[paparazi]

confusedboydale
Stupid question but, you are connecting the extra floppy power lead to the back of the video card arn't you?
450watt should easily be enough but it might be a cheap or failing power supply otherwise.
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