PC Wont Start

Former Member

I have a friend who's PC worked fine, then he added a DVD Writer so has a DVD reader and a writer but with the two pluggedin the PC won't start, I thinkt he fans turn etc but it don't POST.

When you disconnect the reader it boots fine. Could it be drawing to much power?

It's only an Athlon 1800MHz with 1 HD and the two drives and floppy!!

It is however in a small microATX case with a physically little power supply!!

Former Member

hook it up to a big psu to test?

Former Member

Yep sounds like the power supply cant handle it. You can always upgrade the power supply although this is quite an annoying thing to do.

Try a 300w one, thats what iv got. At first it was too much power until i installed my cd-rom and dvd-rom now its all cool.

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Originally posted by RudeBwoy
Try a 300w one, thats what iv got. At first it was too much power until i installed my cd-rom and dvd-rom now its all cool.

???

that makes no sense whatsoever, the bigger the psu the better... certain chipsets draw a lot of power and put some pressure on a crappy psu, that and usb ports put even more demand on the poor thing, i wouldn't even look at anything less than 400. thing about pcs is making them 'future proof' even if the 'future' is only 6 months.

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might be hard to get a bigger PSU, os it's a very small one inthere and nice and quiet I suspect a bigger PSu will be way louder.

Oh well I think my friend can live without the DVD reader since there is a writer.

It is an all in one motherboard so expected it to draw less power then one with seperate sound, graphics, etc