Hello everyone and a happy new year full of health and a lot of hardware for us to obtain.
I have bought from a friend an ENGTX280 Asus.The rest of the systems is consisted from Asus P5Q Deluxe board and Q6600,with 4GB RAM, 3HDs (2 Raptors 74G,1 TB Seagate) ,DVDRW and DVDROM and X-Fi with Skystar2.You can call the above a "power hungry system".
I had the BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 1000W and the GTX280 with the above system was working flawless.Last week I tried power up my rig and no screen,I checked the card and i saw that the red led (means lack of power) was on.I checked cables etc. nothing happened.
I thought that my PSU was dead and I bought a new one yesterday more powerful,the inwin commander 1200w and guess what?Card still indicating red and no power.
The PSU gives 2 rails @36A each while the whole card demands 40A.The problem seems to be in the power check circuitry,is there any trick to bypass or override the check by bridging connections on the pcb?