Reply 40 of 70, by Tetrium
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wrote:From October 25 to November 20 the system was used with the Duron 1800 and ran without crashing even once! I did memtest, superpi, 3dmar2001 all night loop and worked perfectly! The problems started when I switched to the Athlon xp 3200 and particularly when the CPU is under 100% load! The primary culprit seems to be the PSU! I am now searching for an era correct PSU on the local eBay.
If you find one, feel free to ask here whether it's a good one or not. Many could have certain issues which you may want to be made aware about. I'm certainly not a PSU guru, but I can find my way around 😀
wrote:As a side note I got myself a SATA to PATA adaptor and tried again to connect the western digital 1000gb hard drive using the adaptor on the IDE port: again the system freezes on drive detection without letting me to enter the bios and runs perfect as soon as I put in a smaller drive - drives tested and working 100%: Maxtor 80gb sata1, western digital 320gb sata2, Intel 180gb sata3, Intel 240gb sata3, Intel 480gb sata3.
This might be some problem with its newer interface?
I know there might be several potential problems which could be your issue here, especially since it only seems to affect your newer harddrive.
Does your harddrive work in any of your other systems? (also try a few SATA ports)
edit: You may need to repair any old PSU you find. The better 5v ones tended to be made during the capacitor plague 😵