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MONOLITH · 05-27-07, 07:28 AM

Wow, that was freaky.

I was posting about your power supply, and fried my own! LOL.

Holy Kharma.

Thank goodness I have a spare on hand.

Anyway...two posts in here say your 550Watt PSU is more than enough for your card, But nowhere in this thread have you posted the card your actually using right now. I only see the card you're getting.

Just wanted to say that a 550 PSU may not be enough. I bought an ATIX1950 Pro, and a brand new 550 was NOT enough to run the card, and the MOBO, and two disc drives, etc.

I currently have two power supplies connected to my rig, a 550 to run the X1950 and MOBO, and a 300 running my drives.

Just a few watts under can cause the card to whack out like you're seeing. When I see your screens, it looks like either 1. Overheating, 2. Underpowered 3. either the vid card or PSU is simply starting to go bad 4. driver issue

But plenty of others are on the 7.4 driver, including me, without those problems.

Anyway, main point is with current video cards, plus a mobo , plus a couple drives, a 550w is not always enough anymore.

05-27-07, 07:28 AM	#8
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Wow, that was freaky. I was posting about your power supply, and fried my own! LOL. Holy Kharma. Thank goodness I have a spare on hand. Anyway...two posts in here say your 550Watt PSU is more than enough for your card, But nowhere in this thread have you posted the card your actually using right now. I only see the card you're getting. Just wanted to say that a 550 PSU may not be enough. I bought an ATIX1950 Pro, and a brand new 550 was NOT enough to run the card, and the MOBO, and two disc drives, etc. I currently have two power supplies connected to my rig, a 550 to run the X1950 and MOBO, and a 300 running my drives. Just a few watts under can cause the card to whack out like you're seeing. When I see your screens, it looks like either 1. Overheating, 2. Underpowered 3. either the vid card or PSU is simply starting to go bad 4. driver issue But plenty of others are on the 7.4 driver, including me, without those problems. Anyway, main point is with current video cards, plus a mobo , plus a couple drives, a 550w is not always enough anymore. __________________ Last edited by MONOLITH; 05-27-07 at 08:52 AM.