your power supply might be too "small", but some high quailty power supply
can handle these much stuff. eg the last "server box" I built has a
Dual-300w power supply (hot swapable, you can pull out one while the server
is on, and nothing will change), each single 300w unit can handle a 1Ghz
intel cpu + 4 SCSI HDD in a mobile unit (with a huge fan) + RAID SCSI card +
NIC + 4 case fan (2 x 9cm, 2 x 12cm) + ATi AGP card (common for server, same
chip integrated on many server mobo) + a CDRW drive + floppy drive.

but I still recommend you get a better power supply unit, at lease 300w.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Changhsu P. Liu" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] PC starts to reboot itself


> Thank you all for the suggestions.
>
> Mine is running Service Pack 1. I think my problem comes from a cheap IDE
> 66 card I installed recently. After taking it out, I don't have reboot
> problem anymore for the last 3 days. It might not be the card itself. With
> this card added, maybe my power supply (300W) isn't big enough to provide
> all the power needed.
>
> I have a video card, NIC,  firewire, ultra-wide scsi, 3 IDE hard drive
(two
> 5400rpm, one 7200rpm), 1 CD-RW. With this IDE card plugged in, I have
> another CD-ROM player connected. Is it too much for 300 power supply?

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