Overloaded? Don't think thats even possible. On my 300watt sparkle I had a Athlon 1.4@1.6, 2 30gig seagates, 2 40 gig maxtors, my dvd player, and my burner. Not to mention, an external 20gig drive.
Only problem I had was trying to overclock anymore and going under load conditions, or trying to burn/watch dvds the voltage would drop to much and cause the system to reboot.
Samething happens to my p1 100mhz Compaq. It only has a 1gig drive, and when I tried to add another hard drive it wouldn't stop rebooting on its self.
I believe something was actually wrong with the PSU. From the sounds of it to, the solder joint sounds like the culprit, considering everytime he bumped the case its spazzed.
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