Not enough power?

[tooner]

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

[sam_cat]

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

[tooner]

Ok they're both in. Still not enough power. Time to upgrade my PSU?

[Smoken Joe]

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?

[boatasiaus]

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

[tooner]

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