My daughters computer shut down by itself, now it will not boot up or recognise my hard drives or disk drives.

Question

On my daughters computer, I had Windows 2000 pro on the hard drive, a back-up hard drive with a ghost image on it, and a 52x CD drive.and comp would not boot up - just kept saying drives not recognised.
Would not even start from Windows disk, or in safe mode.
Went into bios, and everything seemed fine, altered things and put them back as they were set, even loaded defaults, and still no joy.
I formatted the hard drives, and loaded Windows XP pro, and I am still having the same problem.
I have also tried several different hard drives, thinking that the original was on its way out.
Anyone got any ideas as to how to fix it, or what the cause is??

I re-formatted the hard drive on another computer in the house.

The original hard drive is only 8Gb so it is not too big for the P3 motherboard to handle.

Answer 1

99.9% of the time it either the eide cables or the jumpers on the HD.Check to make sure the cable is securely plug ed in with the red stripe along side the power plug.Check the bios and make sure its set for auto detect IDE HDD. If that does not resolve the issue, check the motherboard to see what max size HD it supports and set jumper for that max(there may be more than one on some boards).Makes sure to check that the jumper on the HD is set to master.Lastly try resetting the cmos. Hopefully this will get you going let us know how it works out for you.

Answer 2

Sounds like it could be a motherboard problem, or an issue with the drive controller. You might also see similar behavior if the drives are conflicting (ie, both are set to Master on the channel). Try running with just one drive, if you haven't already (and use the jumpers to set Master). Also make sure the bios settings are set to autodetect... if you turn off detection, and don't set up your drives right manually, then things could turn out like what you're seeing.

The sudden shutdown could be due to a power problem... the power supply in the case (especially the ones that come in the cheap cases) may not have the muscle to run everything you have in your machine.

Answer 3

Sounds like a hardware problem maybe it is overheating, it is normal for it to shut itself down when this happens to protect itself. I am no expert but i know that if you change the clock speed of the CPU it might help?? Press F10 during startup if you can and look into the settings to see if you can alter it. Hope you have some luck.

Answer 4

Sounds like the motherboard may have gone bad. Gateway, Dell, ECS, PCChips motherboards...all likely candidates.

Overheating would cause it to continuously shut down, and likely not a virus.

Answer 5

The motherboard tranzistor's are overloaded. Probably from intensive power fluctuations! The only way to solve it is to take the pc to a service....

Answer 6

Mine did almost the same thing , i spent 2 weeks trying differant things before I replaced ly IDE cables and that did the trick. i know it sounds stupidly simple(?) but its a cheap attempt and nothing lost if it does'nt work.

Answer 7

How did you manage to format the hard drive while it was not recognized?

Answer 8

Could be virus or motherboard is dumping.. Good luck.. Hugs from Texas.. {:-)

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

your CPU Fan does not work GOOD