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New PSU? Or not?

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zeroyb   04-23-2004 at 09:54:04 PM

hi,

I bought an emachine T2825 a few months ago. I later added Soundblaster Live card and Visiontek Radeon 9100 to it. My system works fine most of the time. Except once in a while, I get a video card "VPU not responding/has been reset" error. The system has a wimpy 250W PSU which came with it. I do have a spare 350W PSU... but I've been holding back on exchanging it, because I thought "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". However, I don't know if my video card freezing (albeit rarely) is because of the wimpy PSU. Is my system a timebomb for problems? Or should I stick with my "not broken, don't fix it"? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. If you want to know, the below link gives my system's default specs.

http://www.emachines.com/support/s [...] Name=T2825

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kinetic_tw   04-25-2004 at 04:06:41 AM
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Really not a whole lot of problems you can run in to by swapping to a larger PSU.

You've got the PSU you want to try, I say; Why the hell not?!

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upec   04-26-2004 at 01:16:59 AM
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You have to make sure the emachine uses standard PSU.

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