Re: Help please - random crashes

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 11:33 am, Gumpster had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

I have an Asus A7V333 mobo, 1 x Maxtor 200GB, 1 x Seagate 60GB, 1 x
Samsung 120GB, 1 x Sony DVD writer, NIC, Radeon 9800 graphics card,
loads of USB 2 peripherals. Athlon XP2800 1GB RAM, 5 x internal cooling
fans - self built system.

A few weeks ago I noticed that the BIOS would only recognise on or
maybe two disks at bootup. I wasn't too worried as XP recognised them
(XP Pro SP2). Then I started to get random crashes under load (I use
iTunes a great deal, Outlook and Photoshop usually open at once).
Lately, the machine will only run for a few minutes before crashing. I
tried reinstalling Windows and even unplgging the other disks but the
fault occurs under load. Asus probe reports no unusual activity, all
temperatures are OK.

I strongly suspect the power supply as I have so many peripherals. It
is a 350W supply.... Is this a reasonable assumption?

Certainly a place to look. That's an older mobo and if it's still the
original PSU, it could well be going. Besides, 350W is kinda small for all
you're running there, especially all the fans.

Manyt thanks,

Gary

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