tooner Posted December 17, 2005 Posted December 17, 2005 The nvidia util is telling me I don't have enough power to run my graphics card. I have a pci-x module from my PSU plugged directly into card. My specs are shown in my sig, is my PSU not capable of running all this hardware? Sometimes I get reboots also. I noticed 2 female connectors on the board, the one IDE devices normally use and the one that floppy drives normally use. Should I be plugging power into these connectors? Thanks in advance tooner Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_cat Posted December 17, 2005 Posted December 17, 2005 I noticed 2 female connectors on the board, the one IDE devices normally use and the one that floppy drives normally use. Should I be plugging power into these connectors? Thanks in advance tooner YES. plug them both in. Sam C Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooner Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 Ok they're both in. Still not enough power. Time to upgrade my PSU? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken Joe Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 You should have enough that is a popular PSU here though not the best. Make sure you have very good connections. Look at the volts in bios with ITE or better yet a multi meter. you could try to unplug the other devices and see if that helps do you ahve the latest drivers? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatasiaus Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 Tooner I would try a bare bones build first: CPU graphics card, RAM. See if it POSTs Add one drive at a time. See if it continues to POST. The PSU might be a little short in power with all those drives Let us know Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooner Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 All my drivers are up to date, I dual boot xp32 and xp64 and the problem is the same in both installs. My 5 hard disks don't spin down because I heard this shortens the length of life of your disks and in 8 years I've used alot of different disks and not had one failure yet. I'm not really sure how the nvidia tool works.. any ideas how I increase the power once it has reduced it? Anywhere within windows to see how much power it's using or requires? Thanks tooner Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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