- Jul 25, 2013
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Hi all,
I have come to the conclusion that my PSU might be dieing. Idk why but it was after I went on a 4 day trip it started acting up ( btw I unplug my PSU and monitor from the wall outlet when I go on trips and such).
It shuts off when I first turn on my pc like 8 seconds into the booting process ( startup boot diagnostics enabled ) and it shuts off right after it's done scanning my HDDs. When I turn it on the second time it boots successfully past the bios and such, but then it comes to the dual boot screen ( windows 7 and windows XP dual boot ) If I click right away on windows 7 it shuts off ( and comes up with a windows startup error ) BUT if I wait like 10 seconds before selecting windows 7 it starts up successfully. Lol what is this? But once I get past the dual boot screen then my PC starts up successfully. And when I look into Windows event viewer It keeps saying shut down and start up degradation and such idk...
You can skip this next stuff here V V V V
My story of the bad psu
The Power supply I currently have in it is a very very VERY cheap power supply. It's that 480w psu from logsis that is for like $20 on amazon ( has like 800 reviews from owners, all of witch 7/8 of the 800 reviews claim to have it fail, damage or destroy their computer ). The reason why I have a wimpy psu is because of this guy at a PC shop put in this wimpy psu in when I had it under maintenance from them. He comes to tell me that it was the psu, and he charged my $40 bucks for that psu! I was curious what kind of power supply it was, I popped open my case and googled the power supply, found out that it was probably one of the worst PSUs you could possibly find! Lol I have been putting my pc at SERIOUS risk because of a careless PC repair guy!
Don't skip this stuff here V V V V
So I bought a new psu for 90 bucks ( $90 ) called the Rosewill CAPSTONE 650w ( non-modular ).
From newegg. Hopefully it will work with my system ( 2 reviews said that it would kinda work for my system, oh, did I forgot to mention that my system was built in 2008? Of course I did
my computers specs would be at the bottom of this post so is the power supplies link to the product ).
Oh ok, it's the bottom of the page now
so here's my PC specs and the power supply.
My pc Specs:
Motherboard: Nettle2
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+ 2.8GHz Windsor
Ram: 4 GB of DDR2 SDRAM ( Max 8 GB )
Graphics card: Radeon HD 7750
OS: Windows 7 home 64bit ( default ) and windows XP 32 bit
Psu: that 480w
HDD: I have one 360gb HDD and one 120gb hdd
12 fans in my case (lol)
New PSU:
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182071
Any ways thanks in advance,
-Cha11enger
I have come to the conclusion that my PSU might be dieing. Idk why but it was after I went on a 4 day trip it started acting up ( btw I unplug my PSU and monitor from the wall outlet when I go on trips and such).
It shuts off when I first turn on my pc like 8 seconds into the booting process ( startup boot diagnostics enabled ) and it shuts off right after it's done scanning my HDDs. When I turn it on the second time it boots successfully past the bios and such, but then it comes to the dual boot screen ( windows 7 and windows XP dual boot ) If I click right away on windows 7 it shuts off ( and comes up with a windows startup error ) BUT if I wait like 10 seconds before selecting windows 7 it starts up successfully. Lol what is this? But once I get past the dual boot screen then my PC starts up successfully. And when I look into Windows event viewer It keeps saying shut down and start up degradation and such idk...
You can skip this next stuff here V V V V
My story of the bad psu
The Power supply I currently have in it is a very very VERY cheap power supply. It's that 480w psu from logsis that is for like $20 on amazon ( has like 800 reviews from owners, all of witch 7/8 of the 800 reviews claim to have it fail, damage or destroy their computer ). The reason why I have a wimpy psu is because of this guy at a PC shop put in this wimpy psu in when I had it under maintenance from them. He comes to tell me that it was the psu, and he charged my $40 bucks for that psu! I was curious what kind of power supply it was, I popped open my case and googled the power supply, found out that it was probably one of the worst PSUs you could possibly find! Lol I have been putting my pc at SERIOUS risk because of a careless PC repair guy!
Don't skip this stuff here V V V V
So I bought a new psu for 90 bucks ( $90 ) called the Rosewill CAPSTONE 650w ( non-modular ).
From newegg. Hopefully it will work with my system ( 2 reviews said that it would kinda work for my system, oh, did I forgot to mention that my system was built in 2008? Of course I did
my computers specs would be at the bottom of this post so is the power supplies link to the product ).Oh ok, it's the bottom of the page now
so here's my PC specs and the power supply.My pc Specs:
Motherboard: Nettle2
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+ 2.8GHz Windsor
Ram: 4 GB of DDR2 SDRAM ( Max 8 GB )
Graphics card: Radeon HD 7750
OS: Windows 7 home 64bit ( default ) and windows XP 32 bit
Psu: that 480w
HDD: I have one 360gb HDD and one 120gb hdd
12 fans in my case (lol)
New PSU:
Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182071
Any ways thanks in advance
,-Cha11enger
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