PC help, please!

[Ganoncrotch]

Cj2i3 said:

ganoncrotch said:
Jesus I wouldn't stick any sort of graphics card in a PC with a 300watt power supply, you know that would be the things peak rating? like if it's 1 or 2 years old it's probably outputting somewhere far closer to 175-200watts now? you're really risking a major shortage and fire trying to do what you're doing there. If you are hell bent on trying to run it with that PSU definitely make sure all the USB hubs are empty of anything you can do without for the time being, even those could push that over the limit .

Running low powered cards on a low powered PSU shouldn't be an issue

It's not just the card tho which takes psu wattage, every harddrive, dvd drive... usb mouse/keyboard will eat through the amount of power that 300watt thing would be outputting by now, like I said it might be rated at 300watts but that is the optimum like absolute max that any of that make of psu could produce on day 1 out of the box, average you'll get from it will be a fair deal less than 300 and then less again if it's a year or 2 old.

A bios update isn't going to make you have more power simple as that, if you want to try you can disconnect stuff you don't need like I said already tho, take out the power cables from your dvd drive and any thing basically which isn't needed for the PC to start up with the graphics card attached. go from there.