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Originally Posted by jumpy
Subman1, what symptoms did you get with having an underpowered PSU trying to run your gfx card? anything like the following:
1) very limited picture with trails left on the screen by the mouse
2) PC boots but the screen won't display - you can hear windows loading jungle and icons on taskbar 'poping'
I only ask as I'm addin an old ATI9600 to my GF's machine and that's pretty much what it does. I think that it's a PSU defficiency  |
No - you get the vid card beeps on boot up with a blank screen - as in my case that is.
By the way - ATI 9600 has hardly any power draw. Try loading in safe mode (Hit F8 on startup) to see if you get a clear pic then. If so, you know its a driver issue. That is assuming you can see your system post correctly.
Issues that I have seen where there is lack of power involve very long boot times - like 5 to 10 minutes to boot as XP recovers from error after error. Not saying that it's the same across the board since lack of power has weird results like you describe, just that I haven't see a situation like yours. Only time I have seen a situation like you describe, though not as bad, is with a dying vid card that was fried (probably bad RAM on the vid card) from static electricity.
-S