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Answer» suddenly a new DVD drive (G)..none was added..AND now it will not read my external drive!! (after disconnecting and then reconnect) Let's do one at a time. What is the make and wattage of the power supply and how old is it? Any recent power surges before the problem started?I think you did not notice that I had sent other info before you wrote your last reply...I had already mentioned that monitor works on 5 of my other PC...plus my parents PC is here and I connected it to that as well...works fine...only THIS PC had the problem.....Power supply was mentioned as well....would you be mad at me if I asked you to please read what I wrote before about monitor and power supply. Thank you so much. ....All is well with the original PC we were chatting about. Except for the DVD (G) ....hmmm....another thought,.....could this drive be for my camara software? ..(not connected..but I do use the usb port for loading pics from camara memory card)...hmmm....I wonder if it was there all this time but I just "freaked out" because I did not see my external drives....perhaps it belongs there. Maybe we are done with this for now. ...please advise on the other PC for me....THANKS!!!!!!!!!Whoops, missed that. Leave it at 115 if you are in the US. If you switch it to the other setting you can burn the whole thing up. Unfortunately because it is pretty and has a blue light and is new does not mean it is a good PSU. That is why I asked about the make. The wattage on a power supply is dictated by the components in the computer. You can calculate it, but why don't you describe all of the hardware - CPU, drives, RAM, CD's, etc. If you didn't pay at least $50 for just the PSU it is suspect at best. Cheap chinese knock-offs cannot be counted on, unfortunately.You're a pretty resourceful granny that can zip up and attach a Belarc analysis. A quality 350 w power supply should be more than adequate for this. You could possibly get by with a quality 300w. but I wouldn't personally.Oh the zipping?...hey if your gonna play on PCs...ya better learn something right?....wish I knew as much as you do!!! Thank you for helping me!! This PC was given to me by my sister. Her friend was going to dump it because they had so many problems with it. My sister convinced them to just let her give it to me. They removed hardrive, and I got the PC. I put in one of my hardrives and it worked GREAT for about a half a year. At one time I decided to get a larger (so I think) wattage power supply for this computer thinking it would then have enough power to run a DVDrw along with a DVD player. This did not work, but I never removed the power supply. someone once told me that it was possible that to have 2 DVD players on the PC I would need more wattage. Thought I would just give it a try. The PC continued to run GREAT even with this power supply. Which included WATCHING TV and recording programs for my grandkiddies. (using one of my 200g for storage for the videos...the files are huge. grin)...etc. The PC began showing problems after a while....the monitor would simple shut off. (PC stayed on.) ...had to reboot....Monitor on again..all fine....after a few weeks of minor monitor shut offs...I decided it might be getting too HOT inside PC or something and would run a tiny fan at the PC and seem to do OK. much better as a MATTER of fact. ...then it started again,...and then it started to have loading problems....off and on....sometimes fine for 7 days in a row ...then 3 days of rebooting constantly etc. etc. Then fine for 4 days...etc. I finally called a computer store and the guy told me it probably was the motherboard...get a new PC...so Now I have that new PC we were working on earlier...I have had it quite a while now...and the other PC was left in a closet for a couple of months ...thought I would take her out again ...and see if it can be salvaged. So here we are trying to see if this can be done. I am going to check to see what power supply I have in there and send that info next...THANKS!!!So that pretty power supply is not new? That sounds even worse. I will be around for another hour or so this evening. Oh Great....no easy info to see when I open PC...HOWEVER,...it does say, For Pentium IV....uh oh...could that be a problem? P/N 066252038393 S/N 0410104044 I have the original box to this power supply but have no idea at this moment where it is...dog-gone-it...I am so excited that you are here to help me, and now I cannot supply you with what you need! Granny I think you have a cheap power supply that is failing. You may have heat issues as well that a case fan would help, but that is what I would replace to get this thing running. These come in 20 and 24 pin varieties, based on the big plug that plugs into the motherboard. Be sure and get the right one. You have a MicroStar MS-6330 motherboard, so look at the cable and count the pins. Here's the basics: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/K7Tturbo2.htm Also, make sure the CPU fan is turning. Here is another great tool for you: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.htmlAnother tidbit....When I took PC out of closet, I hooked it all up and it loaded great,...looked great,....and I had it on for about 2 hours...just messing around and looking at stuff. Internet fine, TV ok, files ok...ran GREAT. then I went to shut down, and waited about 2 minutes...then turned her back on ...PC loaded, Monitor showed on, but nothing came to the screen. I cold booted to shut down again....restarted, loaded fine....including monitor. ...played a bit (maybe 15min) and told PC to restart,....PC on Monitor back on ...nothing on screen again....cold booted, same thing...did it 3 more times, and still would not show on screen...so I shut it off...then removed my 200g from that PC to put backinto my newer PC and then hadthe problems that gotme here to get help. By the way,...where in the world could you see what wattage that PC had for power in that Balarc stuff?? ...if I can get the PC to turn back on for me just one more time I can run Balarc and find out what this new power supply is.?? |
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