Ok, this is a bit of a biggie, but I'd appreciate your advice, so if you want to read on then go for it:
I've just finished building a PC for a work collegue, using my old case, mobo, 1.1 AMD, memory and HDD which was left over from my recent upgrade. The person I was building it for provided a new CDRW drive, and and older CD-ROM drive, and a Raddy9000.
Basically, I built the system, checked everything was configured and found in the bios, then installed Windows.
Problems then happened. About 3/4 of the way though installing Windows, the PC just shut off.....bam.
Unsure of what the problem could be I tried again, and bam, shutdown again at the same point.
I then decided to swap the PSU for a spare one I had, and also take out the old CD-Rom drive, leaving just the CDRW drive.
I then resumed the installation, and everything worked fine.
My thinking is that it was the PSU that was casuing the problem, however it was the same PSU that was in the old system before I upgraded, and I never had any problems. - would you guys concur with my thinking??
It was a 300w PSU, and I don't think that an AMD1.1, one HDD, and two CD drives would be enough to overload the PSU, but SOMETHING was causing the problem for sure.
Anyway, I finished getting Windows on, and set up everything for him, got my money and he went home - although half of me is just waiting for THE phonecall to say the system is not working....
Anybody have any ideas what else it might be? - it stopped at the same point during the installation of Windows, so it MAY have fallen over when it got to setting up the older CD-ROM drive (the one I took out) - although the bios found it fine.
Basically O'm very confused, - this system seems to be fine now, and the guy was very happy when he left, - but its annoying not knowing exactly what the problem was, and knowing for sure if I've fixed it......
Any advice and suggestions would be most appreciated....
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