PC won't power up

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The PSU recently burnt out on my son's PC... not sure of the cause.

There are 2 HDD's in there - 10Gb and 80Gb

A new higher rated PSU was bought but it wont power up when the
original hard drives are connected. If just the 10Gb drive is
connected it boots up as far as complaining that there is no
drive...no drive is regiistered in the startup screen (whether it is
set as master OR slave)

When the 80Gb drive is connected either on its own, or with the 10Gb
drive, there is no power up at all.

It is ok when one of my hard drives is fitted.

Are the 2 original drives shagged?







All the Best,
John

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The PSU recently burnt out on my son's PC... not sure of the cause.

There are 2 HDD's in there - 10Gb and 80Gb

A new higher rated PSU was bought but it wont power up when the
original hard drives are connected. If just the 10Gb drive is
connected it boots up as far as complaining that there is no
drive...no drive is regiistered in the startup screen (whether it is
set as master OR slave)

When the 80Gb drive is connected either on its own, or with the 10Gb
drive, there is no power up at all.

It is ok when one of my hard drives is fitted.

Are the 2 original drives shagged?
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Can't say but the 1st thing I would do is pull the power cord out of
the system and clear the CMOS/BIOS and try again and then check all
cables and jumpers are correct and that the correct good IDE cables
are correctly fitted and try alternate Molex plugs off the new power
supply to the drive/s.
More info here,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/hard.html
HTH :)



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The PSU recently burnt out on my son's PC... not sure of the cause.

There are 2 HDD's in there - 10Gb and 80Gb

A new higher rated PSU was bought but it wont power up when the
original hard drives are connected. If just the 10Gb drive is
connected it boots up as far as complaining that there is no
drive...no drive is regiistered in the startup screen (whether it is
set as master OR slave)

When the 80Gb drive is connected either on its own, or with the 10Gb
drive, there is no power up at all.

It is ok when one of my hard drives is fitted.

Are the 2 original drives shagged?
Click to expand...

I've seen power supplies take out components on the motherboard, drive
controllers, video cards, and RAM on their way out. Only way of
telling what might be bad on yours is to start swapping out items
until you find the one that went south...
Raymond Sirois
SysOp: The Lost Chord BBS
607-733-5745
telnet://thelostchord.dns2go.com:6000
 
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