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| Thread ID: 49896 | 2004-10-04 08:00:00 | Can one of our experts explain???? | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 278125 | 2004-10-04 08:00:00 | Last Thursday I turned my computer off. Was running well , no problems. Later in the day I turned it on again. No go! My comp was dead.I noticed when I turned power on lights on keyboard and mouse came on. Light on comp just flashed and turned off. No action. In a spur of the moment decision I decided my PSU was stuffed so I bought a new 350 watt one and installed it. Exactly the same. I then removed all perepheral connected to motherboard. The computer would now go through the POst sequence and ask where my OS was. Ireplaced them one at a time. and tried booting each time. All OK untill I plugged in my Sata hard drive. With it plugged in the computer was completely dead. That is with the Sata cable. Power connection was OK. So bought a new HDD, installed it and everything is back to normal. What I want to know is how a faulty hard drive can stop the comp from booting to post sequence. Any ideas?? Jack |
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| 278126 | 2004-10-04 08:02:00 | [off-topic]Maybe to do something to do with your post 666? :p[/off-topic] | Megaman (344) | ||
| 278127 | 2004-10-04 08:33:00 | [off-topic]Maybe to do something to do with your post 666? [/off-topic] What??????? |
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| 278128 | 2004-10-04 08:41:00 | If the fault overloaded a power supply rail (+12v or +5v), the PSU would not deliver a "Power_OK" signal to the motherboard to allow the CPU to boot. | godfather (25) | ||
| 278129 | 2004-10-04 08:50:00 | post number 666 may be unlucky ]:) | ferrite (4221) | ||
| 278130 | 2004-10-04 08:53:00 | > bought a new HDD, installed it and everything is back > to normal. > What I want to know is how a faulty hard drive can > stop the comp from booting to post sequence. > Any ideas?? Well I had a person who had similar symptoms. Two IDE hard drives installed. This one stopped booting. On removal of the secondary slave drive the computer would boot. I then installed that same drive in my computer as a slave and my computer did not boot either. Hopefully the maxtor 8.4 Gig hard drive is now being used as a paperweight. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 278131 | 2004-10-04 11:13:00 | I have littel experience with sata drives but i've seen dead ide drives stop a good pc booting even when installed as slave | drcspy (146) | ||
| 278132 | 2004-10-04 21:25:00 | One of the many things POST will check is the HDD's, if the interface at the HDD is shorted , it won't read the bus, (serial or IDE), and so will halt at the bus stop in digital confusion. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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