New PSU? Or not?

[zeroyb]

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/support_info.html?prodName=T2825

 

[kinetic_tw]

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?!

 

[upec]

You have to make sure the emachine uses standard PSU.