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I was very excited about building a new comp. this week started with
2x7950's sli
4 gigs of my old ram 400ddr
485 watt psply
2 160 g raid and 250g backup
nice fancy case and water cooler
4200+ amd 939

and the prob is the mobo I've tried two so far and they both boot fine two or three times and then start turning themselves off, one was a win fast cheap but buy the reviews pretty good and a nvidia board can't remember wich one..
i've changed powers supply retried all the ram independantly and both video cards seperatly the drives wern't even plugged in yet

one board had a small card to flip for sli the other internal and both boards have two power plugs standard 4pin and the power plug for drives etc. have not seen this before

any ideas...
thnx

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I was very excited about building a new comp. this week started with
2x7950's sli
4 gigs of my old ram 400ddr
485 watt psply
2 160 g raid and 250g backup
nice fancy case and water cooler
4200+ amd 939

and the prob is the mobo I've tried two so far and they both boot fine two or three times and then start turning themselves off, one was a win fast cheap but buy the reviews pretty good and a nvidia board can't remember wich one..
i've changed powers supply retried all the ram independantly and both video cards seperatly the drives wern't even plugged in yet

one board had a small card to flip for sli the other internal and both boards have two power plugs standard 4pin and the power plug for drives etc. have not seen this before

any ideas...
thnx


Yes...get a bigger PSU that can actually handle the SLI!

Reply to qwazzy

Don't you need SLi certified PSU's?

Reply to qwazzy

Bigger psu man and why are you going sli why not get a 8800gts for the same price

Reply to dos1986

thanks for the tips
psu looks like the prob we'll see today...
wish i had been on this forum before i got started

thanx again

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