Psu Mod

WDoG · 09-June-03, 12:24 PM

My psu was giving me instability problems....
i had bought it before it had a p4 connector and the one that i was using didnt have one, my ga-7vaxp didnt need the extra p4 connector, but the abit does.
I have computer parts literaly lying all around my house, my dads "office" (where he works) is where all the computers are built, and u cant even walk on the floor in there there is so many parts just laying around... anyways
so i took a p4 connector off an old psu that had died a couple months ago in my machine, and i wierd it to one of the connectors then i took a extra fan and pit it in my psu, its working!!!
yay for me, i just hope if fixes the random restart problem

TekXoID · 09-June-03, 12:33 PM

Good WDoG I hope it continues to work...
Its sad that my Antec SmartPower 400w seems to be dying, my system randomly rebooted last week and my LED fans sometimes flicker on and off,

I'm gonna send it to antec...it has a 3 year warranty...

WDoG · 09-June-03, 12:51 PM

nice, hope it works out, antecs are nice, but WDoG dont have the cash to buy one

star882 · 16-June-03, 11:06 PM

"Its sad that my Antec SmartPower 400w seems to be dying, my system randomly rebooted last week and my LED fans sometimes flicker on and off,"
Get a TruePower.

TekXoID · 16-June-03, 11:19 PM

Quote:


	Originally posted by star882 "Its sad that my Antec SmartPower 400w seems to be dying, my system randomly rebooted last week and my LED fans sometimes flicker on and off," Get a TruePower.

Yes I should...but no reason to blow money on that now since I sent it to antec and got my new one already...
My voltages if anything are too high:
12v=12.080
5v=5.020
3.33v=3.360
1.5v=1.504
No more flickers and system is stable as a circus freak on a tight-rope

KilJaeden · 17-June-03, 12:52 AM

A reason that it suddenly reboots can be remedied by better cooling. My rig sued to reboot itself a lot. But when I equipt it with better cooling it stopped. How would cooling effect power you ask? It is quite simple really, when your computer heats up, less and less voltage is produced by the power supply, this would in turn reduce the voltage supplied to the processor and the rest of the system. When not enough voltage reaches components such as the processor, they destablize. This causes reboots and crashes.

09-June-03, 12:24 PM		#1 (permalink)
WDoG Apex Elite Tech	Psu Mod My psu was giving me instability problems.... i had bought it before it had a p4 connector and the one that i was using didnt have one, my ga-7vaxp didnt need the extra p4 connector, but the abit does. I have computer parts literaly lying all around my house, my dads "office" (where he works) is where all the computers are built, and u cant even walk on the floor in there there is so many parts just laying around... anyways so i took a p4 connector off an old psu that had died a couple months ago in my machine, and i wierd it to one of the connectors then i took a extra fan and pit it in my psu, its working!!! yay for me, i just hope if fixes the random restart problem

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09-June-03, 12:33 PM		#2 (permalink)
TekXoID Banned	Good WDoG I hope it continues to work... Its sad that my Antec SmartPower 400w seems to be dying, my system randomly rebooted last week and my LED fans sometimes flicker on and off, I'm gonna send it to antec...it has a 3 year warranty...

09-June-03, 12:51 PM		#3 (permalink)
WDoG Apex Elite Tech	nice, hope it works out, antecs are nice, but WDoG dont have the cash to buy one

16-June-03, 11:06 PM		#4 (permalink)
star882 Apex Advanced Techie	"Its sad that my Antec SmartPower 400w seems to be dying, my system randomly rebooted last week and my LED fans sometimes flicker on and off," Get a TruePower.

17-June-03, 12:52 AM		#6 (permalink)
KilJaeden Apex Techie I	A reason that it suddenly reboots can be remedied by better cooling. My rig sued to reboot itself a lot. But when I equipt it with better cooling it stopped. How would cooling effect power you ask? It is quite simple really, when your computer heats up, less and less voltage is produced by the power supply, this would in turn reduce the voltage supplied to the processor and the rest of the system. When not enough voltage reaches components such as the processor, they destablize. This causes reboots and crashes.