Time to rework my Antec SL350! >_<

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Re: Time to rework my Antec SL350! &gt;_&lt;

Yes, 999999999, that cap. I wasn't sure if Krankshaft was replying to my post or just telling a story, because I defenitely wasn't talking about the gigantic film cap across the mains.

There IS a stripe on the cap in that picture. At the time, I didn't know which one was supposed to be bipolar so after consulting with the other users I decided to just put a polarized there for the time being. It's all been running fine, although I have now and again gotten random resets. If it happens again, I'll let you know. It's either because of that cap which was polarized, until now OR it's because the OST's on my P4PE are starting to go. I don't know what sort of a load my system is for my old SL350. This is my system:

P4 2GHz
Asus P4PE
2 x 512MB PC2100
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra (has it's own molex)
1HDD
1DVD-ROM

And these days, I'm using the onboard LAN and Audio. I don't imagine this is a huge drain on my SL350, but what's your opinion?


p.s. How did you make such a nice looking arrow?

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Re: Time to rework my Antec SL350! &gt;_&lt;

Yes, 999999999, that cap. I wasn't sure if Krankshaft was replying to my post or just telling a story, because I defenitely wasn't talking about the gigantic film cap across the mains.

There IS a stripe on the cap in that picture. At the time, I didn't know which one was supposed to be bipolar so after consulting with the other users I decided to just put a polarized there for the time being. It's all been running fine, although I have now and again gotten random resets. If it happens again, I'll let you know. It's either because of that cap which was polarized, until now OR it's because the OST's on my P4PE are starting to go.

Does it only reset in windows or if it's sitting in the bios menus? Just trying to rule out software, I doubt that cap is the problem but comparison to other SL350 should help, or trace the circuit and measure it. You need a multimeter.

I don't know what sort of a load my system is for my old SL350. This is my system:

P4 2GHz
Asus P4PE
2 x 512MB PC2100
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra (has it's own molex)
1HDD
1DVD-ROM

And these days, I'm using the onboard LAN and Audio. I don't imagine this is a huge drain on my SL350, but what's your opinion?

SL350 is something like 35A/5V and 16A/12V, a bit of a mismatch since your system uses more 12V current than was intended by the SL350 design. With a multimeter you might measure what happens when the 12V load is high. I don't recall on the FX5600 if that was in the early days of nVidia using more 5V current or not, now video cards use more 12V but I had a FX5900 which did use a few amps @ 5V, IIRC.

Obviously something has to give, if this mobo-PSU combo keeps resetting and you can't track it down with a multimeter then you'll need to try running the system with another PSU.

p.s. How did you make such a nice looking arrow?

Paint Shop Pro, it looked better before I JPEGed it down to a bandwidth friendly size.