Hi,
I recently bought a Radeon 9800 series (256MB), but I'm having some confusing issues with it. After plugging in the power lead to it on my 300W PSU, when you pressed the power button on the computer, the pc would burst into life for a fraction of a second, and then die. If you removed the power lead from the Radeon, it powered up fine with the familiar "you need to connect your power lead" sign.
I figured a 300W PSU was too weak, so went and bought myself a 500W, but exactly the same thing happens.
Finally, after testing a few PSUs I had around, a 350W seems to work it; however my frame rate is exceptionally slow and 3D Mark results are way below what they should be.
I would ideally like to get the 500W PSU working...does anyone have any pointers?
My Machine Configuration is as follows:-
P4 3.4GHz @ 800FSB with 1MB Cache
1GHz dual channel DDR-3200
160GB HDD space
Radeon 9800 Series w 256MB RAM
Any help would be very gratefully received. I have done a google trawl and a few people complain about power issues - but nothing quite like this.
Lee
I recently bought a Radeon 9800 series (256MB), but I'm having some confusing issues with it. After plugging in the power lead to it on my 300W PSU, when you pressed the power button on the computer, the pc would burst into life for a fraction of a second, and then die. If you removed the power lead from the Radeon, it powered up fine with the familiar "you need to connect your power lead" sign.
I figured a 300W PSU was too weak, so went and bought myself a 500W, but exactly the same thing happens.
Finally, after testing a few PSUs I had around, a 350W seems to work it; however my frame rate is exceptionally slow and 3D Mark results are way below what they should be.
I would ideally like to get the 500W PSU working...does anyone have any pointers?
My Machine Configuration is as follows:-
P4 3.4GHz @ 800FSB with 1MB Cache
1GHz dual channel DDR-3200
160GB HDD space
Radeon 9800 Series w 256MB RAM
Any help would be very gratefully received. I have done a google trawl and a few people complain about power issues - but nothing quite like this.
Lee