is the power supply at fault??

[kruseman]

Here are the specs for my computer.

abit kt7 raid
athlon 1200
geforce 2 64mb gts
sb live platinum
HP 12x burner
generic cdrom
generic floppy
AGI 300 watt power supply

My computer had been working great, until one day, my computer just shut off all of a sudden, and it wouldn't boot back into windows with my ibm 40 gig. So, i put in a western digital 60 gb hard drive with windows xp, and that worked for a while, until the next day i was going to get on the computer, when it had been restarted and a windows file was corrupt. Then i tried a 120 gig hard drive and the same thing happened. So i was just wondering, do you guys think this is a power supply problem? That is what i'm leaning towards, and i wanna get this one here at newegg. The 350 watt at the bottom of the page. do you think that would work good?


http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...ry=1461&DEPA=1

Thanks
kruseman

[Epidemic]

Does the mother board post

[kruseman]

what do you mean by post?

it stops at verifying dmi pool data and like freezes there.

thanks for the reply
kruseman

Hey kruseman

One of two things i suspect .. faulty PSU or the CPU is over heating ...

Watch the temps ...

[NDC]

Well, in Windows XP, you have the option to uncheck Automatically Retart. It may be the OS rebooting the system due to OS or application errors...

[aznlurkerz]

Ohh NDC can u PM me a message on where that auto restart is avalible, i'd like to take a gander at that cuz i've had some reboot problems too i just replaced my PSU to a Enermax 350watt whisper... and so far so good but i still wanna check out that option.

Thx
aznlurkerz

[crystaldragon]

Sound like the same behaviour that I've been fighting with. In my case at least, it was the psu going bad and over heating. Random restarts, hanging part way through post.
JD

[NDC]

Control Panel\System\Advanced Tab\Startup and Recovery\

Cleared the CMOS and reset all your settings? On occasion, I need to.

[kruseman]

hey guys, i sent it to my uncle.(he built it so he works on it). He fixed it. It was a bad bios. he just reset it and rebuilt it and now it works fine. Has that ever happened to anyone?

kruseman