PC Hardware gurus help: AGP external power supply

**rion** · January 11th, 2009 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

Lag in windowed mode? I normally encounter that problem if I used the default one that came with say, XP or Vista. Normally, the latest Catalyst drivers should fix that issue.

BY the way, what ATI card is that? Specs?

latest po yung driver sir Jun. wala kasi driver cd yung package eh... pati S-video to rca converter wala...

radeon x1650 po. 512Mb gddr2, 600core 330x2memory freq. I think 1,400 memory niya sa gpuz.

lag po yung directdraw window mode, making internet browsing lag

I can't troubleshoot for now po. the power supply will smell sunog na after awhile, hiniram ko palang yung generic 500watts. pina-ayos ko pa power supply ko HEC 385 watts. right now, I'm using my old card...

hindi po kaya dahil low on power? kaya lag? but games are not lag though...

btw, I even removed 1 HD, 2 cd/dvdrom, peru nag-amoy sunog parin yun eh... di talaga kinaya...

**Jun aka Pekto** · January 11th, 2009 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by rion

latest po yung driver sir Jun. wala kasi driver cd yung package eh... pati S-video to rca converter wala...

radeon x1650 po. 512Mb gddr2, 600core 330x2memory freq. I think 1,400 memory niya sa gpuz.

lag po yung directdraw window mode, making internet browsing lag

I can't troubleshoot for now po. the power supply will smell sunog na after awhile, hiniram ko palang yung generic 500watts. pina-ayos ko pa power supply ko HEC 385 watts. right now, I'm using my old card...

hindi po kaya dahil low on power? kaya lag? but games are not lag though...

btw, I even removed 1 HD, 2 cd/dvdrom, peru nag-amoy sunog parin yun eh... di talaga kinaya...

Let's see.... Diagnosing video card software problems are always tough ones. I do know ATI cards sometimes choke if there are traces of the previous video card drivers even if the previous video card was an ATI card and had the same drivers. That's why for a time, I used to alternate between ATI and nVidia. Actually, I still do. This pc I'm on had an ATI X800XL. It now has a GF 8600GT. My next card would probably be ATI.

Personally, I can't really think of a solution to your problem unless I'm right there. But if you haven't already, you can try next time to set Windows to generic vga mode and uninstall any trace of the video drivers. ATI should have such an uninstall utility. Then reinstall the new card.

Also, there are older motherboards/chipsets that aren't fully compatible with AGP 8x. An example would be my old Athlon XP 1700+ pc. Not sure if yours is the same. But, you can look into it.

Add: You also mentioned "sunog". That means burning. If I smell something cooking in my pc. I normally would check for dust, the connections of every component, and try to isolate which area is cooking. If they don't work, I then completely disassemble my pc including taking off the heatsink and fan from the cpu. I reassemble afterwards and try again. My experiences with a burning smell had been the PSU, CPU, and GPU (or perhaps the m/b itself). Typically, by the time I figure out which component is bad, it's too late. He He.

That's just the way it is. If you can smell it, a lot of times, it's too late.

**Horsepower** · January 11th, 2009 04:30 PM

Jun is correct, have you cleaned your pc of the old videocard's drivers?

what psu are you using? branded or bundled-in the case?

My HEC 550AB hasn't failed me eventhough it burned my HD when i inserted it the wrong way. My sata hd comes with a legacy 4-pin molex.

**rion** · January 13th, 2009 03:13 AM

I just just installed my true rated power supply HEC 385, naayos na kasi. at wala na po lag sa video. thank goodness.

yung sunog po na amoy, sunog po yun galing power supply, smelling from it's exhaust fan... the smell of the chemical coating of the tranformer melting... been on these road before kasi eh... my 1st and 2nd power supply 300w generic smelled like this, before it totaly broke.

ngayon, wala na po yung amoy, looks like my old hec 385 could still take the load.

thanks guys.