I have an amd xp 1800+ cpu, abit kr7a-raid mobo atattched to this i have two hard drives a cd-rom drive a floppy drive and three 80mm thermaltake fans, on the mobo i have geforce3 ti500 and an audigy player. All supplied by an 300 watt psu!! The problem started today when i purchased a brand new cd rw 32x 12x 48x made by Cyber Drive. At first i connected it to the machine as per instructions, connected everything backup and nothing, the drive light did not come on, everything else that worked before still worked. So i took it back and was given a replacement got home installed the drive and again nothing, now this to me is the wierd bit i can get it to work intermitently, i have noticed that the +5v reading has gone up from 4.78 to 4.92. It seems as i would be very unlucky to have got two dodgy drives, especially as the guy said he tested the first one and it worked ok. The question is am i expecting to run to much from the 300w psu, should i need to upgrade ?.
wierd have u tried unplugging another drive and using the power connector from that cos it sounds like the actual connector is ********
Yes I have, infact i have used all the spare and all from the other drives and still the same proplem.
thought u probably would have er . . . can u connect stuff as 7v (ie 12v - redwire 5 v = black wire) cos i had an old psu that didnl like some drives and that wont run stuff at 7 v otherwise im all out of ideas :-(
get a fan put the red wire into 12 v(yellow) black wire into 5v(red) and turn on if it works i cant think of a problem try another psu i dont know if this may damage a psu ive never broken mine or my old one that didnt like doing it (tripped the rcb in the psu) so its up to u
