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Wed, 07 November 2007 13:57

Romaner
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Registered: January 2007
Location: edmonton, canada

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the 400w psu was a bottom of the line one. and after reading the manual and being told to go no lower than 500w i decided there is no point in powering it on and stressing it even more. also from what i remember from my electrical courses in college.
the capacitors on the board are meant to stabilize the waveform of the voltage and the current. so then the most likely reason for the board to be overheating while working in under wattage condition is because the capacitors are working way to hard to stabalize the rectified dc, and my shitty psu isnt capable of supplying constant wattage/ voltage.
so i came to the conclusion that im actually frying the board by running it in this condition, and making it overheat because of the extra work all the components are doing.

and i dont want to loose this mobo so thats why i decided to not even bother powering it on with this psu. instead im going to power it on when i get home tonight and having it connected to the new psu that i have in this sonata case.
then i will be free to perform all the stress tests and observations i need.

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		need help with hardware By: Romaner on Tue, 06 November 2007 10:19
		Re: need help with hardware By: The Elite Officer on Tue, 06 November 2007 10:51
		Re: need help with hardware By: mrpirate on Tue, 06 November 2007 11:14
		Re: need help with hardware By: The Elite Officer on Thu, 08 November 2007 12:43
		Re: need help with hardware By: mrpirate on Thu, 08 November 2007 13:15
		Re: need help with hardware By: JPNOD on Tue, 06 November 2007 11:07
		Re: need help with hardware By: Romaner on Tue, 06 November 2007 11:21
		Re: need help with hardware By: CarrierII on Tue, 06 November 2007 11:51
		Re: need help with hardware By: Caveman on Tue, 06 November 2007 13:05
		Re: need help with hardware By: Romaner on Tue, 06 November 2007 12:59
		Re: need help with hardware By: Zion on Tue, 06 November 2007 13:11
		Re: need help with hardware By: sadukar09 on Tue, 06 November 2007 13:14
		Re: need help with hardware By: light on Tue, 06 November 2007 13:33
		Re: need help with hardware By: sadukar09 on Tue, 06 November 2007 13:38
		Re: need help with hardware By: Romaner on Tue, 06 November 2007 14:12
		Re: need help with hardware By: Caveman on Tue, 06 November 2007 17:24
		Re: need help with hardware By: Chuck Norris on Tue, 06 November 2007 23:02
		Re: need help with hardware By: Zion on Wed, 07 November 2007 05:29
		Re: need help with hardware By: Romaner on Wed, 07 November 2007 08:40
		Re: need help with hardware By: JPNOD on Wed, 07 November 2007 11:17
		Re: need help with hardware By: Romaner on Wed, 07 November 2007 13:57
		Re: need help with hardware By: Romaner on Thu, 08 November 2007 09:32
		Re: need help with hardware By: Chuck Norris on Thu, 08 November 2007 10:32
		Re: need help with hardware By: Romaner on Thu, 08 November 2007 12:47
		Re: need help with hardware By: CarrierII on Thu, 08 November 2007 13:19
		Re: need help with hardware By: Romaner on Fri, 09 November 2007 08:32
		Re: need help with hardware By: CarrierII on Fri, 09 November 2007 10:17
		Re: need help with hardware By: Romaner on Fri, 09 November 2007 11:33

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