- Oct 31, 2000
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I have an enermax EG365-VE (which I think is pretty good quality) and I had my system running with a XP2100+, FX5200 video, two HDD, 2 CD-ROM and a few case fans. Not much else that draws power. I replaced the XP2100+ with an XP3000+. It posted at 1300, I went into the bios and changed it to the 3000+ setting. rebooted, everything was fine and when it booted into XP I got a weird message that norton could start. I restarted, it didn't show any CPU speed so I hit reset and she wouldn't post at all. Fans would still spin and the LED on the motherboard was on but nothing else would happen. I thought maybe the CPU was hooped so I replaced it with the XP2100+ and nothing but spinning fans. Then put in an old Duron 700 and same thing. I tried a 250W PSU I have in another machine and it posted with the Duron 700. Sounds like the PSU to me. I don't want to try to run either of the XP CPUs with the 250W PSU.
My question is, would the 3000+ draw so much that it would kill the PSU? Or is this just a freak coincidence that my PSU packed it in when I swapped in the new CPU?
The Enermax PSU is about 2 years old.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My question is, would the 3000+ draw so much that it would kill the PSU? Or is this just a freak coincidence that my PSU packed it in when I swapped in the new CPU?
The Enermax PSU is about 2 years old.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.