"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
news:o59h319h6n99kglr8t99v0qm8f4lt9t7q3@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:03:06 -0000, "S.Boardman"
> <abuse@dont.spam.me> wrote:
>
> >Hello. I have Radeon 9800 Pro card in a MSI KT3 Ultra mobo (Athlon XP2500
> >Barton, 1Gb Corsair PC3200 RAM, 2xWD 80Gb HDD RAID1, Antec 430W PSU).
> >
> >When I started the PC up just now, I got the alarm regarding the power
cable
> >not being connected. I opened it up, and everything is connected as it
> >should be. Trying to boot again and everything is fine.
> >
> >Is this a sign of impending failure or anything? I bought the card autumn
> >last year. I'm slowly increasing the FSB to overclock the PSU, currently
at
> >171 -  1885MHz - nothing major. That wouldn't affect it, would it?
>
>
> Well the higher clock rate will use more power, but whether
> you're at some kind of limit is hard to say, take some
> voltage readings and see if they look off, diferent than
> previously.  Your clock rate increase is so minor though,
> that if it's causing a problem it'd be a problem already
> nearly present at stock speed too.  IIRC, you have a Barton
> CPU, right?  Generally with that PSU and CPU others have
> been able to hit past 2.1GHz without problems.
>
> I'm not familar with the alarm for the video card though,
> what it takes to trigger that.  Is it solely a video-card
> based alarm that has nothing to do with the motherboard?  If
> so I'd suspect either a problem with the card or just a
> random glitch.  Maybe that particular power connector just
> has contacts that aren't perfect and it makes an
> intermittent connection?  More time may be needed to see if
> the problem reoccurs and when.