ACLeroK212
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So I bought a new DVD burner last week, installed it, and everything was working fine. I left my old regular cd burner in to have two cd rom drives, but after a few hours problems started to pop up.
At first, the old drive started to act up. The red light would go on to say it was reading and the thing wouldn't open at all once I turned the computer on. I figured it was just time to get rid of it and unplugged it. A little while afterwords my computer started lagging and briefly freezing like crazy every so often. While trying to figure why it was doing that, it just powered down on me. Then it started regularly powering down while in windows after a few minutes. Shortly after this problem, it started powering down while loading windows, and now it won't even get past the bios. I noticed if I leave it alone for a few hours it will get further in loading windows but it still just cuts power and shuts off and continues to do so 10-15 seconds after turning it on.
Basically, what I "think" happened is my power supply took a crap on me. I have a 450W power supply that came with the case I bought so I figure it's not a real good quality power supply in the first place. At the time the problems started showing up I had 2 cd-rom drives, 2 hard drives, a 9800 pro, my mobo, and 3 fans hooked up to it. I'm assuming that it was just too much for it to handle and once it started going it went downhill fast.
Can anyone confirm my problem or know what's happening. At first I thought maybe it was a virus or something and even tried unplugging both cd drives and both hard drives but it still powers down shortly after turning it on.
If anyone has any advice I'd really appreciate it.
Also if it is the power supply, can someone recommend a good one for around 75 bucks?
System specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Soyo CK8 Dragon Plus mobo
1024MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 pro
80GB and 10GB Western Digital hard drives
Phillips CD - R/RW
Toshiba DVD - R/RW
At first, the old drive started to act up. The red light would go on to say it was reading and the thing wouldn't open at all once I turned the computer on. I figured it was just time to get rid of it and unplugged it. A little while afterwords my computer started lagging and briefly freezing like crazy every so often. While trying to figure why it was doing that, it just powered down on me. Then it started regularly powering down while in windows after a few minutes. Shortly after this problem, it started powering down while loading windows, and now it won't even get past the bios. I noticed if I leave it alone for a few hours it will get further in loading windows but it still just cuts power and shuts off and continues to do so 10-15 seconds after turning it on.
Basically, what I "think" happened is my power supply took a crap on me. I have a 450W power supply that came with the case I bought so I figure it's not a real good quality power supply in the first place. At the time the problems started showing up I had 2 cd-rom drives, 2 hard drives, a 9800 pro, my mobo, and 3 fans hooked up to it. I'm assuming that it was just too much for it to handle and once it started going it went downhill fast.
Can anyone confirm my problem or know what's happening. At first I thought maybe it was a virus or something and even tried unplugging both cd drives and both hard drives but it still powers down shortly after turning it on.
If anyone has any advice I'd really appreciate it.
Also if it is the power supply, can someone recommend a good one for around 75 bucks?
System specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Soyo CK8 Dragon Plus mobo
1024MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 pro
80GB and 10GB Western Digital hard drives
Phillips CD - R/RW
Toshiba DVD - R/RW
