windows vista

TerrorFirmer

Septic Leper wrote: »

Mine is a ez-cool 700 watt psu




http://www.amazon.co.uk/EZCool-Tornado-Super-Silent-700W/dp/B0014DHXQ6/ref=sr_1_3/276-2004011-4490840?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1232478410&sr=8-3

Probably something like 350-400w in reality... That's made by JSP-Tech, remember this?

Just looking at the X-Power PSU's there, the 400, 450 and 500w PSU's claim 75% efficiency but only have 17, 18 and 20a on the 12v respectively. Pretty piss poor. It was, I believe, either the 500 or 550w that had the horrible efficiency in tests, looking at the 700w X-Power PSU it has a combined 32a and also sports a slight-less-nasty-but-still-cheap blue box and I haven't heard anything about it but presumably it comes from the same factory. I think X-Power are all re-brands of cheap supplies anyway, apart from their Gamer line which come from HEC which are OK.

So it might not be the PSU, but just keep it in mind all the same.

darealtulip

i will start swapping and measuring thursday. Will let you all know thursday or friday.

I will try windows 7 aswell. septic leper did you have problems or none??

darealtulip

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Probably something like 350-400w in reality... That's made by JSP-Tech, remember this?

Just looking at the X-Power PSU's there, the 400, 450 and 500w PSU's claim 75% efficiency but only have 17, 18 and 20a on the 12v respectively. Pretty piss poor. It was, I believe, either the 500 or 550w that had the horrible efficiency in tests, looking at the 700w X-Power PSU it has a combined 32a and also sports a slight-less-nasty-but-still-cheap blue box and I haven't heard anything about it but presumably it comes from the same factory. I think X-Power are all re-brands of cheap supplies anyway, apart from their Gamer line which come from HEC which are OK.

So it might not be the PSU, but just keep it in mind all the same.

Ill try it anyway. Its done in minutes. Its the waiting to freeze that takes 10 minutes orso.:D

I will measure first, then change PSU and measure again. If all is still freezing i start doing software

iPlop

darealtulip wrote: »

i will start swapping and measuring thursday. Will let you all know thursday or friday.

I will try windows 7 aswell. septic leper did you have problems or none??

No problems so far with 64 bit version ,and not 1 frreze yet ,and im' running alot of stuff trying it out.IE 8 is good as well ,and you will get free anti virus for it from microsoft.I recommend you partition your hard drive install windows 7 and duel boot -just in case;)

ttm

eoferrall wrote: »

This is good stuff, I always assumed bigger the PSU the better never realised that the quality would be so poor in some!:eek:

If you ever get the chance when buying a PSU also consider its weight. Would you expect a 700Watt PSU to be lighter in weight than a 550Watt PSU? Its a

darealtulip

I have installed windows 7 aswell now and no problems so far. not one freeze (yet). Like it a lot. I did the upgrade and all my programs and file and documents were in place and working except for skype and easymule. I had to instal the beta version of skype and reinstall easymule. other than that no probs what so ever (yet)

did measure everything but couldnt see anything strange ore anything with light on or off. didn't try them on while starting up yet but will doi that tomorrow and let yoou know.

Ended up not changing my PSU os anything. just works fine as it is!

what do you all think? it should be a software problem then or not? Early dyas though and report back in the morning!

L31mr0d

I had an issue with my PC hanging on startup recently as well. OP, you don't have any ramdisks do you?

My issue was that my ramdisk was mounting my pagefile to ram when it was booting, as the pagefile had gotten pretty large this was taking longer and longer. I just set the ramdisk to not bother keeping an image of it and just let Vista create a new one as and when it needed to.

Aside from this I turned of GUI boot in msconfig and installed this application (startup delayer) for setting the time at which each application starts. Works a treat and my desktop is now usable in about 13 seconds after booting.

ttm

Sorry about dragging up the PSU issue, hope it didn't confuse things too much. Very strange how it froze on a cold boot but was OK on a restart from the reset button, perhaps boot order was different?

Just googling "vista reset cold boot freeze" looks like a few people have exactly the same issue of needing a reset after a cold boot to start things up, unfortunatly no real answers.

darealtulip

ttm wrote: »

Sorry about dragging up the PSU issue, hope it didn't confuse things too much. Very strange how it froze on a cold boot but was OK on a restart from the reset button, perhaps boot order was different?

Just googling "vista reset cold boot freeze" looks like a few people have exactly the same issue of needing a reset after a cold boot to start things up, unfortunatly no real answers.

haha yep I googled it too. It's strange a lot of people have it and a lot dont. very strange.

windows 7 working fine, only disconnects my internet every so often, probaly my modem is to old, they send me a new one

darealtulip

L31mr0d wrote: »

I had an issue with my PC hanging on startup recently as well. OP, you don't have any ramdisks do you?

My issue was that my ramdisk was mounting my pagefile to ram when it was booting, as the pagefile had gotten pretty large this was taking longer and longer. I just set the ramdisk to not bother keeping an image of it and just let Vista create a new one as and when it needed to.

Aside from this I turned of GUI boot in msconfig and installed this application (startup delayer) for setting the time at which each application starts. Works a treat and my desktop is now usable in about 13 seconds after booting.

will try tha aswell, sound really good!

darealtulip

HOORAY!!!!!! no freezing this morning. No problems what so ever! everything is solved except for the lights issue. Is there a beter VOM meter out ther that remembers the lowest and highest voltage? I think it just goes to fast for me to see