well t'day I bought a new Seagate Barracuda V 120 GB 7200 rpm HDD, I have added it as my Secondary Primary HDD and when it's powered up I get wierd black stripes on my monitor-/

Without that HDD enabled the problems are gone, kinda wierd ya know.

So what could be my prroblem? Is my PSU not powerfull enough?

Might be :-/

Try disconnecting all CD/DVD drives and Floppy and see if it helps. If so, try a more powerful PS.

done that, I disconnected teh 120GB Seagate HDD and all probs were gone heh :-/ Ohwell time for a new PSU I guess , since formattig the new HDD with the Voodoo 5 was nor prob, wierd though :-/

well I kinda fixed the problem now :) I disconnected one of my case fans and heh no more funny stuff :-X

PC's are strange I guess heh :-/

I'd really look into another power supply ASAP.

@Obi_Wan - dude, buy a better PSU! ;)

If you are having problems like that NOW - it will be only a matter of time before your PSU gives under the strain! :'(

Write down what you have in your case and use HERE to find out what PSU you need for all the devices... ;)

http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp

This includes fans and USB external items that draw bus power... :P

wrote on 28.01.07 at 06:29:51:

http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp

Recommended PSU Wattage: 233 watts

MSI MB, AMD 2000+, 1 gig ram, 1 HD, 2 DVD, 6600GT

The system I use every day doesn't seem to be straining it's 320 watt power supply to bad, lets check out the P4 system next.

Recommended PSU Wattage: 294 watts

Gigiabyte MB, Intel 2.4C, 1 gig ram , 2 HD, 1 DVD/RW, 1 CD/RW.

Following the 85% rule of usage (never run electronics at 100% for long periods of time) I should be ok.

wrote on 28.01.07 at 06:29:51:

@Obi_Wan - dude, buy a better PSU! ;) If you are having problems like that NOW - it will be only a matter of time before your PSU gives under the strain! :'( Write down what you have in your case and use HERE to find out what PSU you need for all the devices... ;) http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp This includes fans and USB external items that draw bus power... :P

well thanx for the help Paul I filled in what IU had and the outcome was 273 watts that's with 100% CPU load, so my Enermax EG365VE with max output of 365watts should be sufficiant.

Anyways I have reinstalled Windows 2000 Professional + Service Pack4 with Rollup 1 for Service Pack 4 and now everything is dead stable no funny lockups yet :)

the 30GB drives seemed to have died, since it was simulating the noises of a Floppydrive :-X

@ gdonovan

But yeah on the otherhand the PSU I use is very old, it might be usfull replacing thanx for that idea though :)

they says that be quiet! PSUs are the best

Its a question of believing...

Also good brands are:

Enermax Liberty (quiet and cable managment)
Seasonic (quiet and really good efficency)

hmm a Zalman PSU was also on my mind since they are master's of silence cooling :)