Ordered an EVGA superclocked card (minimum 300w PSU requirement) along side a new Antek 400w PSU. Installed everything is hunky dory, then PC resets. I only get about 10 minutes of video playback before it crashes then resets. This is not good for an HTPC. Curious thing is even after the screen freaks out I get audio till it officially crashes. I've even tried unplugging everything. That way I would only be starting with my BRD drive, keyboard, graphics card, my OS HDD, and audio. Same result. Is this the result of a bad/unqualified PSU? or just the card? Thanks My setup: Windows 7 Home 500gb OS HDD 1.5tb Media HDD Evga Superclocked nvidia 240gt 400w PSU Blu-Ray drive DVD drive 4gb of ddr3 ram Phenom II x4 965
For what hardware you are running...you need a better PSU...a 400W one will not suffice. What is the amperage on the 12V Rail and how many 12V Rails? Consider getting a Corsair 650.
I purchased THIS one. I also just test my machine using THIS OTHER one. The first one obviously didn't work, the other one played videos well, didn't have much time to barrow it, but PC was playing 4 videos simultaneously (one in media center, on in media player, and two in VLC) for about 10 minutes. I figured running that many would be test enough. Alas, one last test with the 850w. The Windows performance test. Gets about halfway through, BSOD.....Same as the 400w. Help? thanks
