athlon 64

External Since: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1

I am building an Athlon 64 system and the power goes out after a few
minutes ands the video doe snot show up on the monitor -- I have a 300w
PSU, do I need 400 or 450? What else coudl cause these symptoms? Also,
the Serial ATA drive I have -- I have the ATA cable and power, but
there's a third port, what does thast do?

External Since: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 448

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> I am building an Athlon 64 system and the power goes out after a few
> minutes ands the video doe snot show up on the monitor -- I have a 300w
> PSU, do I need 400 or 450? What else coudl cause these symptoms? Also,
> the Serial ATA drive I have -- I have the ATA cable and power, but
> there's a third port, what does thast do?
>

300W is too low for an Athlon XP. I imagine an Athlon 64 system must really
be starved for power at 300W. Try 450 Seasonic or Fortron. Some of the
early SATA drives have SATA power as well as (IDE style molex) power
connector and the SATA data cable. I'm guessing you probably hooked up the
SATA drive to a molex connector, and now you have a third port which is SATA
power. (not needed, if the drive is functioning OK) -Dave