Ive had nothing but problems with my computer since i built it. I have a AMD athlon 64 3000+ with Geforce 5500, 1GB ram, ASUS Motherboard K8N, and 120GB seagate, with 30GB IBM hitachi hdd. I have been getting a lot of errors lately, blue screen, dos prompts, etc... Sometimes windows boots up and sometimes no. One suggestion i got was that it might be the Power supply. Is this possible? Can the PSU really be responsible for these types of errors? I have a 500W MGE Votec power supply. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
the psu should be ample for your system you could have it checked to make sure voltages etc are correct these can cause crashes is your ram matched ? looked into a bios update ? checked the health of your Drives ? run a burn in with somthing like sissandra see if it identyfies any problems overheating etc.
PSUs can cause the problem, especially cheap ones. Download a monitor program and check that the voltages are +/- 5% of what they should be.
