I replaced the 300W power supply in my PC with a 630W supply because I needed more power for a video card I was going to install. When I powered on the PC to test the new power supply, Windows just quit working. I have both Windows XP and 98 SE on this computer and they both quit working which seems odd since only XP was set as the active partition to boot. In the BIOS configuration, my processor speed is now shown as 1.7GHz instead of 2.23GHz which it used to say. Could the CPU be fried? . I've since put the 300W supply back in but Windows still doesn't work, it always freezes at some point before it finishes booting leaving it unable to do anything.
Basically, I'm trying to figure out what could be wrong. I'm using the computer now with a self-booting Ubuntu Linux CD and everything works fine (?). I can run some of my windows apps like ZDoom and GZDoom with wine so the processor can't be that bad (?). GZDoom is utilizing openGL (although running terribly slowly but this is probably because of something else) so the graphics card can't be messed up can it? And the hard drive seems to be good since all my files are still there (?). I'm not sure whats wrong or what to do.
I would be thankful for any help. The recovery disks don't work, they freeze like Windows does. I might reformat the hard drive if nothing else works . Now I have a sweet new graphics card that I can't use and windows is dead.
Basically, I'm trying to figure out what could be wrong. I'm using the computer now with a self-booting Ubuntu Linux CD and everything works fine (?). I can run some of my windows apps like ZDoom and GZDoom with wine so the processor can't be that bad (?). GZDoom is utilizing openGL (although running terribly slowly but this is probably because of something else) so the graphics card can't be messed up can it? And the hard drive seems to be good since all my files are still there (?). I'm not sure whats wrong or what to do.
I would be thankful for any help. The recovery disks don't work, they freeze like Windows does. I might reformat the hard drive if nothing else works . Now I have a sweet new graphics card that I can't use and windows is dead.