Power supply suspissious

[Elouan Le Bretton]

OK here's my problem. I have a 300W psand I run, 1GHz Athlon, Geforce2 mx200, 2 HDD, 2 CDRW&DVD, 1 network card, 1 PCTV card, and a bunch of stuff on USB ports.... It sounds a lot, and I've got weird pbs while I play counter-strike : the whole system would just freeze and not respond to anyhing anymore.

So i'd like to konw if the problem could be the ps, but I've got no idea on how to do that. I suppose I should monitor the voltages, but how to do that? Any suggestion will be appreciated

 

[rjan Langbakk]

I skriblet Elouan Le
Bretton noe ala dette

OK here's my problem. I have a 300W psand I run, 1GHz Athlon, Geforce2 mx200, 2 HDD, 2 CDRW&DVD, 1 network card, 1 PCTV card, and a bunch of stuff on USB ports.... It sounds a lot, and I've got weird pbs while I play counter-strike :
the whole system would just freeze and not respond to anyhing anymore.

So i'd like to konw if the problem could be the ps, but I've got no idea on how to do that. I suppose I should monitor the voltages, but how to do that? Any suggestion will be appreciated

It _could_ be the PSU - but that's not that much stuff sucking out the juice. I'm currently running a small server with a Cel 333 / 320 MB RAM, 2x SCSI disks, 3x IDE drives, 1 CD-ROM, AGP card, network card, SCSI-controller + some smaller stuff - on a 300 W PSU.

Of course your CPU sucks up more power, so does your AGP-card, but the other stuff shouldn't suck that much power - although if the PSU is crappy, the voltages and power supply can be flaky - which isn't good at all.