Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
Guys, you'll have to excuse me with time because my systems have all failed to boot. No idea why. It happened when I tried changing PSU.

Phenom is not booting at all in MSI or Abit board with 3 different PSUs, same problem as before when you switch power off (defaults), stuck in reboot cycle. Spent 4 hours on it.

Gigabyte PSU is totally DOA on all boards. Tried 4 boards, MEM/CPU doesn't even start.

Two C2 systems also no boot with those 3 PSUs but luckily an older P4 worked with the Antec and the Seasonic which I'm posting off right now. Spent hours troubleshooting this.

At least the P4 idles 55W AC.

Achim: Download GBT 550W PSU guide here, there is no guide but on CD in box and you might find trouble installing it (it has many things): http://america.giga-byte.com/FileLis...s800a-d1_e.pdf
Sounds like a weird weekend start over there. Thank you for the guide, with luck the psu will arrrive today. Have you tried what's described in there at the last page.

sidenote, sounds like the monitoring can be done on a different pc, as i hoped.

Celeron system idles at 43W AC here atm.
M2A-VM with phenom 9500 and onboard graka was ~75W AC.
With the BE2400 ~55W AC.
All setup's used different hardware but it was always onboard gfx, one hd, one dvd drive and no extra fan's. All had power saving features enabled.
K8 has p-states i guess maybe the msr tweaking works there also.