[petra999]

Hello!
Sometimes monitor of my computer at the boot gone black and i heard something like this: "system failure pnp card" or something like that (i don't know for sure, becouse voice is not good, maybe is not pnp card, but i heard that) My motherboard is Asus P4C800, i send some emails to asus tech support, but they don't recive. And clearing CMOS give no result, all looks good, and i realy don't know what to do.

Thanks for any help


P.S Sorry for my english i'm from Poland

 

[petra999]

Hello! no one know what to do?
I recorde this voic, and i have it on mp3. if anyone want to hear this, please tell me, so i can send you email with this short mp3

 

[dai]

do you have another video card you can swap in

 

[petra999]

Sorry, it not pnp card, but cpu fail test (voice is in the bad quality). But question is, what is with CPU? sometimes PC work great, sometimes he 've got something like this. Power? or something with CPU?

 

[dai]

check for any yellow alongside of anything in the device manager

 

[petra999]

It not power , when i change power supply, fail is still in, but maybe it something bad with connection of 4-pin 12 volt cable for processor, couse sometimes it works. One time i turn on computer, i heard this voice, and after 45 seconds it start to work. But, maybe is something with numbers of watt? Do you think that 300W on power supply is enought?

 

[dai]

it depends what your system specs are current day computers are usually a min of a quality 550w
post your system specs including the psu details

 

[petra999]

1024 gb of ram, gigabyte 7600 gs, seagate 120gb, cd-rom... that is all...
It's strange, sometimes is work, sometimes i've got system failed, cpu test. Maybe it just connection... or maybe something with processor... what is the easier way to check processor?

 

[dai]

try it in another computer
where are your psu specs and what was the other one you tried

 

[petra999]

PSU:
CODEGEN 300 WATT
MODECOME FEEL 300 WATT

i'll try with 350 watts today, but i think is strange, couse sometimes it works fine...

 

[dai]

you need to be in the quality 550w area
agp needs a min of 18amps on the 12v+ line
pcie 26amps

 

[petra999]

but it isn't strange? newest computer works fine with 350 watt...

 

[dai]

nothing strange and there is nothing strange when a over loaded power supply decides to go and take a number of other components with it
http://www.techsupportforum.com/

 

[petra999]

link is invalid...

 

[dai]

sorry thought i had changed it to the updated one
http://www.techsupportforum.com/f210/power-supply-information-and-selection-192217.html

 

[petra999]

thanks

 

[linderman]

both of your PSU units are very low quality



replace with an antec earth watts 500 watt PSU or Antec Trio rail 550 watt is even better

 

[petra999]

the funniest thing is, that in instruction it written, that i need 230 or 300 watt psu;p

 

[dai]

if you are refering to the calculator
you need to add 30% to the end result and when using setting the m/board ageing section to the appropiate setting
going by the model of board in your case would be around 50%

 

[linderman]

Hmmmmm I sold over 25 systems that were P4-800 specification I never found any PSU under 450 watts that could even last one year ??


and only the highest quality 500 watt PSU's would work either, especially with the intel P4 prescott cpu >>>> they draw alot of power and give off alot of heat, both of which make a PSU work hard