i want to know if i need a bigger power supply i have a 350 watt soyo kt 4000 mobo 2, led 80mm fans 2, 80mm fan 1, bay fan 1, 60 mm fan 1, neon 12" ati 7200 521 ddr 2100 256 ddr 2100 1, 40 gig westtern digital 1, 20 gig qutium (or some thing like that) i have been have some probles with the computer lately is crash and some time the video card jsut goes out and my resolution got from 1280 X 1024 to 800 x 600 this happens most of the time when i am playing a game or watching a movie on my pc please help if u can Thanks Travis

The 4 component values listed are the legent to read the output. ...from... http://www.tdl.com/~netex/cases/ps.html Calculate the number of Watts consumed as follows: Number of Watts = (2.9A x 12V) + (0.9A x 5V) = 39.3W Create a table listing these values for each component in your computer. You may find it easier to create this table in a spreadsheet. Tabulate the +12V amps used in one column and the +5V amps in a second column, the +3.3V amps used in a third column. In the last column list the total Watts consumed. Here is an example for a typical high end system: Component Amps (+12v) Amps (+5v) Amps (+3.3v) Total Watts Max Value (From Power Supply Spec) 12 amps +12v 30 amps +5v 14 amps +3.3v 340.2 watts Cheetah 18GB Hard Disk 2.9 0.9 0 39.3 watts Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM 1.5 1 0 23 watts BusLogic 958 PCI SCSI Controller 0.5 5 7.6 56.08 watts SoundBlaster AWE64 ISA 0.175 2 0 12.1 watts Matrox Millennium II PCI 0.5 5 7.6 56.08 watts NetGear PCI Network Card 0.5 5 7.6 56.08 watts Intel CPU Fan 0.1 0 0 1.2 watts Sunon Chassis Fan 0 0.3 0 1.5 watts Sunon Chassis Fan 0 0.3 0 1.5 watts Teac Floppy Drive 0 1 0 5 watts CalPC Bay Cooler Fans 0 0.3 0 1.5 watts ASUS P2B Motherboard w/128MB RAM and 266MHz CPU 1 7 0 47 watts Total Consumed (Calculated Sum) 7.175 27.8 22.8 300.34 watts You should not exceed the amp ratings for the individual voltage supply nor the total Watts. Note that to calculate the amount of power used by an expansion card use these standard values which are the maximum power consumption in Amps per bus slot per the design specification of each bus respectively. Note that your card will probably consume less power than these maximal values: Bus Type +12v power +5v Power +3.3v Power Watts ISA 0.175 2 0 12.1 EISA 1.5 4.5 0 40.5 VL-Bus 0 2.0 0 10.0 PCI 0.5 5.0 7.6 56.1 AGP Up to 9.2 0 Up to 7.6 25-110W Different cards will consume different amounts of power. If in doubt use the maximum value. Note that an AGP can consume up to 9.2A on the +12V rail and up to 7.6A on the +3.3V rails. However, the total consumption can not exceed 110W. This has been a problem for some motherboard/graphics card combinations like the Riva TNT which draws 6A from the 3.3V rail and the older P2L97 motherboards which only provide 3A on the 3.3V rail. For more information on AGP visit the AGP Forum at: http://www.agpforum.org/. For more information on PCI cards see the PCI Special Interest Group at: http://pcisig.com/. Note that the values we have calculated are actually an overestimate. We have calculated the maximum theoretical power that each expansion card can consume. The actual cards will consume less, probably half as much. We have also calculated the maximum consumption values for the disks assuming all will be at peak activity simultaneously. We can see from these values that the choice of a high end 300W power supply is adequate for our sample system. If you plan to build a dual Xeon system you should use a 400W power supply. Each 400MHz 512K Xeon processor will use 30.8W. The 400MHz 1MB Xeon will use 38.1W. The 450MHz 512K Xeon will use 34.5W. The max plate cover temperature is 75C. For information on Xeon power consumption see: http://developer.intel.com/design/pentiumii/xeon/datashts/

Doesn't sound like it, it could very possibly be some form of dri ver conflict or something. Power supplies can usually cause blue screens of death (Previous experiences with a 350MHz), it also seems to cause shutting off hard drives... PSUs are usually not the case unless you have WAY too much in there.

ok well this sound crazy but i never had this porblme be for i had to format hard drive and i made the file system ntfs insted of fat 32 but i never had any problems until i changed the file system