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| Thread ID: 79456 | 2007-05-20 22:31:00 | PC not booting, one long BIOS beep | autechre (266) | Press F1 |
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| 551580 | 2007-05-22 11:01:00 | Thanks dugimodo. I have a Thermaltake PSU in there currently - I think its 430W. Just unsure whether it will have the necessary connections for a more modern m/board :) At this stage, if my current board is dead, I will probably go for a 7900GS instead of the 8xxx range. So it sounds like the current PSU should hold up ok. Anything new will more than likely require a 24-pin PSU, and your current PSU will most likely be 20-pin if it's for socket A Look at the current supplied more than anything else. my enermax liberty (400watt) supplies 32A on 12v, and I have seen a PSU (also rated 400 watt) that came with a $50 case that gave 12A on 12v (in fact it probably can't even manage that) Of course it was not of good brand, but still - It's pretty obvious that watt ratings on most PSUs still mean nothing! I had a thermaltake purepower 420Watt, from memory it was 14A on 12v, still not good enough. |
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| 551581 | 2007-05-22 22:07:00 | Thanks for all the advise people :) I have pretty much done all the testing I can do with the old board & have concluded that it's toasted. Since no new socket A stuff is available (not surprising), I have ordered a Core2Duo 6420 + board,memory,gfx & psu which will hopefully last a while :) |
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