Can anyone help me, I bought a GF4 Ti 4200 8X 128MB about a month ago. It worked fine but after I installed it I started getting loads of random errors on my PC. Recentley my primary hdd has stopped detecting or locks itself randomly and today I turned on my PC and nothing would load. I changed the gfx card to my old ATI 128 Pro and it was fine......WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH MY PC????? I only have a 300 Watt PSU so could power be an issue or do I need to replace my GFX card and get a new hdd????? Please help me!!!!

edit - please move this to computer C&A don;t know why I didn't put it there......guess I'm an idiot! thanks.

Try a new Power Supply?

I have a 300 Watt PSU atm, it's powering 2 HDD's and a DVD and CDRW. I have two cards plugged in as well. Does this sound like underpowering?

<!--QuoteBegin-NaTaKu+Feb 22 2004, 05:26 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (NaTaKu @ Feb 22 2004, 05:26 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I have a 300 Watt PSU atm, it's powering 2 HDD's and a DVD and CDRW. I have two cards plugged in as well. Does this sound like underpowering? [/quote]
Holy shit yes, upgrade to at least 400watt

My friends giving me an old 350Watt as I'm only using a 1.3 Duron will that be ok for the time being?

<!--QuoteBegin-NaTaKu+Feb 23 2004, 03:36 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (NaTaKu @ Feb 23 2004, 03:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> My friends giving me an old 350Watt as I'm only using a 1.3 Duron will that be ok for the time being? [/quote]
Yea 350w should be fine, just don't o/c or anything

k thanks. What psu should I get when I upgrade I'm getting:

CPU: 2500 Barton
RAM: 512MB 2700
MOBO: Abit Nforce 2 Ultra
GFX: GF4 Ti 4200
SC: On Board
Modem: Shitty 56k
HDDS: 1 120GB
DVD/CD: 1 DVD, 1 CDRW
Floppy: 1.44MB
Cooling: Massive O/Clocking CPU Fan (2 Fans, 1 H/Sink), 2 Standard Case Fans, HDD Cooling Bay

This'll be what it's like when it's finnished and I want enough power to o/clock CPU and GFX, I will possibly get a 9600 Pro to replace the GF4 at some point too.

At least 350watt, If your going to overclock get a 400watt. Make sure you don't cheap out on it though. Get an Antec/Vantec/Enermax

k thanks dude...is a Seagate 120GB 7200 RPM UDMA 133 w/8MB Disk Cache a good hdd to get?

<!--QuoteBegin-NaTaKu+Feb 26 2004, 07:26 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (NaTaKu @ Feb 26 2004, 07:26 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> k thanks dude...is a Seagate 120GB 7200 RPM UDMA 133 w/8MB Disk Cache a good hdd to get? [/quote]
Any harddrive by any manafacturer is fine, the normal user won't notice a difference between them. Seagate's are noted for their near silent operation. So I would go for one of them

cheers...I'm currently trying to gt my GF4 to run on my Debian 3.0 R1 install but I can't get the driver installer to run properly. Do you either have experiance with UNIX/LINUX based systems or know anyone who has?

<!--QuoteBegin-NaTaKu+Feb 27 2004, 07:39 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (NaTaKu @ Feb 27 2004, 07:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> cheers...I'm currently trying to gt my GF4 to run on my Debian 3.0 R1 install but I can't get the driver installer to run properly. Do you either have experiance with UNIX/LINUX based systems or know anyone who has? [/quote]
No linux experience other that through webhosting. Minimal OSX experience but that doesn't apply. I don't know anyone that uses Linux on a day to day basis.

You realize your giving up alot by switching right

Dual boot dude.....I got XP still but now I have a little less space for my Debian Partition......also it runs alot of things quicker than Windows (Can browse, play music and type a word document w/out system resources going down to 30 or so %).....

One question though I have 1 UDMA 33 Drive and 1 UDMA 66 Drive. I have the UDMA 66 Drive as the primary HDD and deffinatley under Linux it's slower cos it tries to run my UDMA33 Drive as a UDMA66 Drive and it doesn't read at proper speed.......should I swap them around and will this also improve my XP performance?

<!--QuoteBegin-NaTaKu+Feb 28 2004, 09:03 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (NaTaKu @ Feb 28 2004, 09:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Dual boot dude.....I got XP still but now I have a little less space for my Debian Partition......also it runs alot of things quicker than Windows (Can browse, play music and type a word document w/out system resources going down to 30 or so %).....

One question though I have 1 UDMA 33 Drive and 1 UDMA 66 Drive. I have the UDMA 66 Drive as the primary HDD and deffinatley under Linux it's slower cos it tries to run my UDMA33 Drive as a UDMA66 Drive and it doesn't read at proper speed.......should I swap them around and will this also improve my XP performance? [/quote]
You should get rid of all older harddrives as fast as you can, You can stop everything from slowing down everything else on that channel by getting a PCI IDE card and splitting everything up.

so you mean have 4 different IDE interfaces then?

<!--QuoteBegin-NaTaKu+Feb 29 2004, 04:47 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (NaTaKu @ Feb 29 2004, 04:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> so you mean have 4 different IDE interfaces then? [/quote]
Yup, or keep the same speed stuff on their own channel to stop the faster drives from getting hammered

will doing that put any strain on my psu?

<!--QuoteBegin-NaTaKu+Mar 1 2004, 03:00 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (NaTaKu @ Mar 1 2004, 03:00 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> will doing that put any strain on my psu? [/quote]
Having more than four devices will strain anything less than a 350watt

I was actually reffering to having another PCI card in my PC. I have another (sorry about my crappy PC) problem with my GF4, it's runs quite hot. I haven't o/clocked it or anything and I've moved my modem to the bottom most PCI slot. Is it usual for GF4's to run hot or should I invest in a system fan too?