Athlon 2000+ with a 240watt power supply equals..?

[Mag]

So umm if you had an athlon 2000 with 256 mb of ddr and a Geforce 4 ti4200 and chucked them all together with a motherboard connected up to a power supply of only 240w what would happen?

 

[Mag]

well its just that thats what i did and when i turhned it on

it made a veyr unsettling noise and didn't do anything,.,

it was like a car trying to start....

the cpu fan was fine ibut the power supply seemed to keep restarting itself..

so i took all the new xomponents out and put the old onbes back thinking "stupid me i need a better psu..." but now the cd writer will nto accept any power and refuses to open and the hd refuses to load windows or do anything... crap...


so i want to know.. is this what usually would happen or have i stuffed up in a nother way also?

 

[ad_rach]

you just need a bigger psu.at least 300w.

no matter how hard you try, you can't polish a turd. :]

 

[bronibbear]

THEY SUCK A LOT OF JUICE!!! At least 300 watt but 350 or even 400 one would be better.

 

[Mag]

yes i know that but would it be normal to have your components get stuffed up because your psu was not up to scratch?

 

[4Ryan6]

Absolute Bottom Line Minimum for what you're running 300WATTS

Safer at 350WATTS

No Problems at 400WATTS

AMD XP requires a Min of 300w,
Gf4 TI-4200 requires a Min of 300w,
Add a couple of cooling fans and you've got trouble, I would reccomend to get a 400W and be done with it, you didn't scrimp on the video card why scrimp on the power supply.




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[dhlucke]

It will NOT work.

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[Mag]

yeah i know..

trouble is it was my dads pc

i bought an enermax psu for mine...

but i forgot about that small detail when i was setting up my dads pc...

oh well im about to plug his hd into my system and have a look at it and make hope its recoverable...

 

[jihiggs]

the components in the old system dont work now? i think the worst that happend is you blew the old psu.

my computer is so fast, it completes an endless loop in less than 4 seconds!

 

[4Ryan6]

I agree, He shouldn't have had enough power to damage anything.




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[Crashman]

You probably overloaded your power supply, a cheap one with no overload protection.

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[bronibbear]

It sounds like you've definitely killed your PSU but its unlikely you've damaged your other components unless the PSU put a surge through as it went!