i just bought a new motherboard to support my video card, and a stick of ddr ram, but when i start up my computer, it takes about 15 trys to boot. My guess is the power supply, ill try booting up my computer and i get nothing on the monitor, but after 15 tries, the monitor and cpu boots up. is it the power supply? My motherboard manual doesnt state the minimum power supply power. I have 480w powers supply to meet the needs of my video card (minimum 300w). My guess is that theres to much watts on the 480w power supply for the motherboard i have. But why would my cpu boot though?
2007-03-27 13:40:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You cannot get to many watts in a power supply. All items installed will use only the wattage they require to operate.
Sounds more like a power switch problem.
2007-03-27 14:07:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are the processor and motherboard compatible? or the ram/cpu/mobo compatible? if one or all aren't then the system won't boot, or if they are installed wrong, backwards or something it wont boot. It would seem to me that if the psu was bad, then the computer wouldn't start at all, yours is starting here and there, thats why i asked. Also, i have to ask, did you put the new video card in the correct slot, is it the right card for the slot of the motherboard? and the right directon (for PCI ) for the slot it's in?
Give me specifics and i can look it up for you.
1) CPU Type
2) Video card type, model # etc..
3) motherboard type, model # etc.
4)ram type
2007-03-27 23:42:20 · answer #2 · answered by Ubuntu_Overlord 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you getting a error message or is it just getting to a certain point then dying?
2007-03-27 13:45:20 · answer #3 · answered by posiden5665 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋