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which was only £23.50 - so seemed a good way to cheaply upgrade someone's broken computer.
problem(s):
1. blows 235w psu (sparks flying etc, not hard to do though, as i've seen this brand of psu do it before, old "hipro")
2. will not stay on with another 300w psu "power master" weighs about the same as a feather.
3. using another 230w(?) psu, it stays on, but the pc health status in bios, seems to sometimes be there, and sometimes the info is just not there. (unbranded, but looks like it's quite high quality)
4. using duron1600, it doesn't recognise the CPU, apparently a bios update resolves this for duron1400 and below.
so - do i have a faulty motherboard, or am i just asking too much from dodgy power supplys?
all i have connected is a duron1600, 256mb, and a gfx card, and now hard drive, now that it's staying on with the 230w psu - so seems as though it'll work now with the 3rd psu... (will test more later today)
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Putting in a cheap and underpowered PSU may have damaged the mobo or any part inside the PC, that could be what's causing you trouble now. The KT266 are very old chipsets now and most implimentations are not capable of working with the 0.13mu CPUs like the new Durons or practically all current AthlonXP (ie Tbred). They may not work with any AthlonXP, you'd need to check the mobo manu's website and would likely need the latest BIOS for decent support. Also check the gfx card as many KT266 used a 1.5v ONLY (ie not Universal AGP4x) AGP slot so anything older than a GF2 may give you problems.
Come on, I thought it was well known how they keep their prices cheap. PC Chips are known as by far the worst mobo manu but hey if it works it works. If you want cheap something 333FSB capable (eg KT400 or SiS746FX) is a much better buy and should come in cheap too since you can get a 400FSB nForce2 (albeit single channel) for under £40 new from Dabs.
