SATA & new vid card. Do I need a new PS?

The question(s).
Does a SATA drive need more power? I have an Athlon XP 1500 on a KM4M-V board w/512 ram. the PS is a 300W Silent X bought from Newegg 6 months back.
Does a dual vid card need more power?
The background.
I have been trying to fix a serious to random blue screen prob. It all started at some point while I was doing these upgrades.
1st - Install new 80G Seagate SATA drive. Works fine with the 64 mg.NVidia card that I have had for a year or so.
2nd - My son orders two Asus V9400X (Gforce4 MX4000) dual monitor vid cards (128 mg.). I take one. Everything seems fine with the Viewsonic 17" crt monitor.
3rd - New Neovo 19" LCD - last part.
The BSOD was really bad last week (I formatted & re-loaded the OS five times). Now it is just random. I pulled/re-seated cards, re-pluged plugs - helped but still have occasional blue screen.
Thanks for any help or ideas.

Not really, but an additional device always requires more power, especially during startup. Adding more devices always adds an accumulative power requirement.
Dual RAMDAC's do require a slight bit more power when operating in dual monitor mode, but nothing to speak of really.
Without the data the BSOD is giving, your power supply's make/model/specs (See Suggestions on posting and getting better answers at the top of this page for clarification on info.) it's all going to be guessing from here. My inclination is you are experiencing several problems, perhaps the power supply is now being pushed to it's limitations (see Is your problem caused by your PSU? )
Perhaps it is just a driver or OS issue. You can be running along just fine for a year or two, but adding new hardware and drivers, can push OS registry health over the edge. You may have to use a driver cleaner utility to remove the previous drivers completely before installing the new drivers. See http://www.drivercleaner.net

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haha I think it is the n9800gt catd...must be a typo
Oh please provide your full system spec
whoops, yeah it's the n9800gt. Typo.
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