What are some symptoms that your powersupply is going bad?

at work we take care of 350 pc's and as far as I can remember when it went it went. There wasn't any synptoms.what symptoms are you having?

System restarts on its own Spontaneously goes into standby Fan does not run, runs slowly, or runs noisily Computer is heating up Dim display Any number of different things. Almost all PSU symptoms are also symptoms of another failure. For instance, a dying PSU can cause lockups or invalid page faults or disconnections from the Internet. Computer may not power on or may not complete PoST Drives may not work intermittently Multiple drives must be replaced repeatedly Crackling audio Computer running slowly Drives intermittently not detected Like I said... almost all PSU symptoms are also symptoms of other failures.

true and worse yet it could ruin ur hardware. so you better replace your power supply unit before ur psu gone dead.

I had a feeling it was my psu. I'm having almost all of the above happening to my computer. System locks up audio skips. I have a 2200 amd with 512mb ram and my computer runs slower than a 800 mhz Celeron with 128mb ram. It's kind of pathetic. And this all happened slowly it just kept getting worse and worse every couple of days and now i'm just ready to chuck it out the window. Thanks for the advice I hope it works. Corey

Remember: It may not be the PSU. You could be having software or hard drive issues.

You could test to see if your problem is that your power supply is having trouble meeting the load you are putting on it by disconnecting a few things and see if you are still having problems. eg, disconnect power to floppy and cr rom drives and maybe also take out your sound and modem cards etc, anything to reduce the power load. If this solves your problem then either you need a bigger (or better) power supply, or possibly one of the devices/cables you removed/disconnected is faulty (you could easily test for this by swapping parts around). You could also try unplugging everything (including your motherboard) and plugging it back in in case something is loose (and check for bad, dirty, or bent pins while you're at it). AMD's need lots of power. I think you want a 300w power supply to run them but this will be dependant on what else you are running. Celerons dont need much power so if you upgraded an old box it may not have enough grunt for the AMD. I'd check your case temperature as well. If your machine is too hot then lots of strange things can start happening. Good luck, Spamtrap