PC troubles; Need help! Crazy problems.

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theprof00 said:

I'm gunna go home tonight, pull everything out except the RAM, and one HDD (and CPU obviously). If it works, then it's the PSU. If it doesn't, I'm going to have to start thinking about buying all new parts. 

If it's the PSU, then I'm gunna hit BB and try to get a new one working, and if it does, I'll order one off of tigerdirect.

pulling everything out the system does not guarantee that it will work if the problem is the PSU. You are probably thinking that a bad PSU just doesn't put out enough power, and that isn't the case. You could be having voltage swings causing the entire mobo or maybe just a few components to shut off randomly causing all sorts of weird problems.

There are 2 ways to test the PSU

1) use a PSU tester (which I'm sure you don't have access to)

2) use a different PSU and if the system works, then you know the old one was broken

EDIT:
as for antek vs corsair, I don't think there is much of a difference in quality. If the price is the same pick whichever you feel better about. The guy is probably the unlucky guy who got a bad PSU and swore off antek forever for no legitimate reason. It's like saying Honda makes worse cars than Hyandia just because you got the one bad one so you switched to Toyota.