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| 1271946 | 2012-04-30 05:37:00 | Stay away from HyenaLOL OK - are the others OK? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 1271947 | 2012-04-30 12:28:00 | What are your system specs? i.e. what wattage PSU are we looking at. Stay away from cheap PSU's in general, they only bring headaches in the long run. Good brands off the top of my head (there are others); Corsair Seasonic Enermax Silverstone Antec (I think) Ok brands if you have to save a bit of cash (both exaggerate the power ratings but aren't total junk); Cooler master Thermaltake |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1271948 | 2012-04-30 20:43:00 | What are your system specs? i.e. what wattage PSU are we looking at. Stay away from cheap PSU's in general, they only bring headaches in the long run. Good brands off the top of my head (there are others); Corsair Seasonic Enermax Silverstone Antec (I think) Ok brands if you have to save a bit of cash (both exaggerate the power ratings but aren't total junk); Cooler master ThermaltakePretty low spec - I think 450W-ish should be enough (had a 420W in there I think for several years until that fell to bits a few months ago). I don't have a huge budget (well don't have any budget really), so was looking for around $50 (or less) Cheers, Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 1271949 | 2012-04-30 20:46:00 | By low spec I mean: Pentium dual core 2.5 3gb ram geforce 8400 the usual few USB devices (phone, camera, printer) firewire (not used much) 100mb ethernet to router 4x HDD 1x DVD I think that's about it. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 1271950 | 2012-04-30 22:05:00 | Well you don't get much on that budget, and despite previous posts it's not 100% proven that it's your issue but if you want to try one maybe; www.pp.co.nz I've ordered one of these for myself, it's on special but it seems to good to be true for a respected brand name. www.pp.co.nz And something like this would probably do for your system in a pinch |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1271951 | 2012-05-05 01:04:00 | I would get an ISO of memtest burn it to cd then boot from it. Then test the memoryI ran memtest from USB drive. Test passed, returned no errors. Took about 90 minutes to run. Does that rule out RAM issues? I have ordered new PSU (needed a new one anyway). Will see what difference that makes. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 1271952 | 2012-05-05 01:16:00 | If it is a 320 or 350w you definitely need something over 400 maybe 500w. I would be surprised if 350w would power 4 hdd's. You'll be lucky if it could power the DVD :p | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1271953 | 2012-05-05 01:32:00 | I've ordered the 500W from dugimodo's link above. The current PSU isn't plugged into the DVD drive as I don't have enough SATA power connectors :) so its only got the 4x HDDs plugged into it (plus the Mobo) Can a pass from Memtest now rule out RAM issues? or is that still possible? Cheers, Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 1271954 | 2012-05-05 01:35:00 | The ram MAYBE OK. I think most people run it overnight tho. To see if any errors come up. But, you could wait for the PSU to arrive. And see if it freezes again. If it does, then I would run memtest overnight | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1271955 | 2012-05-05 01:41:00 | I ran it until it finished... or did I miss an option? I just left it going until it popped a message at the bottom saying the tests passed and no errors returned. Cheers, Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
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