psu atx 2.0 cert required?

[jonah255]

I'm putting together a box with a pentium d and an intel motherboard with the ati xpress 200 chipset. It will run for awhile and then all of a sudden it will just restart. I never even see a blue screen. I put in a 500 watt coolmax, sli certified, 24 pin mainboard connector, dual rail ( i think it's like 17V on each, 400 w over the 12v anyways) and I thought it would run like a champ. Is it possible this is because the psu isn't atx 2.0 compliant (which this board requires)?

 

[eplebnista]

Windows XP will automatically restart by default if a blue screen occurs, often restarting so quickly that the blue screen is never seen. To see if it is a blue screen, you need to turn off the automatic restart setting. To do that right click on My Computer and select properties from the menu. When the system properties box pops up, click on the advanced tab. Then click on the startup and recovery button, clear the box next to automatically restart and click OK. If windows is encountering a problem and blue screening you should now be able to read what type of error is occuring and research the error code or misbehaving file, and try to find a solutoion. If it restarts with no blue screen or any warning, then it might be a power supply issue.

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: jonah255
I'm putting together a box with a pentium d and an intel motherboard with the ati xpress 200 chipset. It will run for awhile and then all of a sudden it will just restart. I never even see a blue screen. I put in a 500 watt coolmax, sli certified, 24 pin mainboard connector, dual rail ( i think it's like 17V on each, 400 w over the 12v anyways) and I thought it would run like a champ. Is it possible this is because the psu isn't atx 2.0 compliant (which this board requires)?

24 pin mainboard connector, listed as "SLi certified" and therefore my guess would be it has the 4-pin CPU power motherboard connector; and it's not ATX 2.0 compliant??? But that's what ATX 2.0 means iirc...


Edit: In fact - "ATX12V 2.0 - 24 pin main connector, 4 pin secondary connector ", from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX#Power_supply