Power Supply Pico Psu not working with Micro Atx Board

[Altsouza]

Hello,
I was using a Mini Itx Asrock Z170 board (now broken) so I had to temporarily replace it with Micro Atx Gygabyte H110.
I use one 120gb SSD , one 3tb 3.5 HDD. No video cards. Processor is a Pentium G4400/Ram 8gb DDR4.
Now my Pico Psu 160w (with regular 5 amperes transformer) is not is not working well with the two HDD (it wont boot - the cooler starts and go off...) . I have to disconect the 3.5 HDd to boot well.
Does the Pico Psu 160w not able to power this configuration???

Any help is welcome.

Thanks

Antonio

 

[thewizzard1]

What power supply are you using to power the Pico PSU? With 3 HDDs spinning up, you might simply be taxing it in POST.

 

[Altsouza]

I am using a $5 regular 5a PSU

 

[Altsouza]

I am using just 2 HDD. One SSD and one 3.5 HDD

 

[Thehack]

I am using a $5 regular 5a PSU

Lol. That's a 60W psu then. Your AC-DC adapter needs to match the system power as well. If my numbers are correct, the g4400 is a 40W chip, and each 3.5 is 10W. And SSD is like 3W.

I would say this is a "no shit" type of thing. Buy a 10A one and you should be good.

 

[Altsouza]

Thank you. I will try a 10a PSU