X850 Blowing my power supply?

Long story short. Have a machine I bought in 2004, late in 2004.
Gigabyte MB. 2 gigs of memory. Replaced old 9600 with X850 AGP video
card. Worked, but next day, I smelt electronics...and the power supply
blew. Replaced PS, blew again. Replaced with another PS, it blew
again. Can those video cards blow up the PS? I'm putting 500 watt
PS's in it....hate to abandon a machine that's still a good box (P4/3.4
Ghz, 2 Gig mem, AGP 850XT, 250 gig hd, DVD/RW) but.....

Think it's the video card? (don't have an old one to replace it with
now to troubleshoot and once the ps is blown, it will not turn on).

On 19 Mar 2006 18:43:22 -0800, "Drrouter" <> wrote:

>Long story short. Have a machine I bought in 2004, late in 2004.
>Gigabyte MB. 2 gigs of memory. Replaced old 9600 with X850 AGP video
>card. Worked, but next day, I smelt electronics...and the power supply
>blew. Replaced PS, blew again. Replaced with another PS, it blew
>again. Can those video cards blow up the PS? I'm putting 500 watt
>PS's in it....hate to abandon a machine that's still a good box (P4/3.4
>Ghz, 2 Gig mem, AGP 850XT, 250 gig hd, DVD/RW) but.....
>
>Think it's the video card? (don't have an old one to replace it with
>now to troubleshoot and once the ps is blown, it will not turn on).

Have your psu install by the vendor that way you will spare some
dollars. 500watt should be more than enough for the system.

Enermax
thermaltake
are good psu.

Something is probably shorting, it could be the new X850 or a connector/wire
you knocked loose while making the vid card swap.

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"Drrouter" <> wrote in message
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> Long story short. Have a machine I bought in 2004, late in 2004.
> Gigabyte MB. 2 gigs of memory. Replaced old 9600 with X850 AGP video
> card. Worked, but next day, I smelt electronics...and the power supply
> blew. Replaced PS, blew again. Replaced with another PS, it blew
> again. Can those video cards blow up the PS? I'm putting 500 watt
> PS's in it....hate to abandon a machine that's still a good box (P4/3.4
> Ghz, 2 Gig mem, AGP 850XT, 250 gig hd, DVD/RW) but.....
>
> Think it's the video card? (don't have an old one to replace it with
> now to troubleshoot and once the ps is blown, it will not turn on).
>