Flashy Doom of power

nugget_ownage · Post by **nugget_ownage** » April 21st, 2005, 5:54 am

I'm working on my new computer, and I have the mobo installed and the power hooked up, I turned it on to make sure I hooked it up right...and too see the leds. The when the swtich in the back is on 115v it works fine for a while, but then it starts turning on and off. It doesn't do that when I'm on 250w but the performance decrease dramatically. The fans got slower and there is a strange sound in the power supply box, but it stays on. Could I have a faulty power supply or did I just hook somethin up wrong somewhere. Mobo is an ASRock P4V88 RAID Socket 478 VIA PT880 ATX Intel Motherboard and I have the stock powersupply from my premoddee kindwin http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... 6811170020

MawDuce · Post by **MawDuce** » May 2nd, 2005, 10:32 pm

What is the rated whattage of your power supply?

Xitech · Post by **Xitech** » May 19th, 2005, 12:18 am

Your from Georgia huh? Well, every normal house plug in that state should be 115v, the 250 is for europe. I'm assuming the PS is based on a 115v setup, so when you set it for 250 your only restricting the power getting through to about half, resulting in decreased performance. The reason why it restarts whenever its on 115 is because the PS wattage rating is way to low OR the CPU core voltage is set to way to high and only runs whenever its at 250 but everything else is suffering. Thats my 2 theories on the problem, if i lost you, email or IM me and ill talk you thorugh it.