Went into work today and my computer wouldn't start. My co-worker powered it off through Windows Saturday night. Monitor is okay. Everything is plugged into power strip which is still on. After playing with it I decided the Power Supply was dead. Changed it out with a new one. Now the fans start, CD and DVD work but no noise from the HDD. Tried switching around the power plugs to it but no good. Any thoughts? I brought the HDD home to try it on another computer but figured I'd ask before going through the trouble.
2006-11-27 10:14:47 · 5 answers · asked by fatesjoke03 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Try the HD on another computer. If the HD truly was toast the system bios would have gone through its POST and reported a HD failure or no boot up device.
What you might want to try if you find that the HD works on another computer, unplug the power to the comp and all devices attached to the computer, remove the CMOS battery from the motherboard, and let the residual charge drain from the system. Just a few minutes should do it. Reinsert the battery and power up the machine. If the computer boots you will need to go into setup and check all settings, (time, HD, video source, memory) and then boot to windows.
I just worked on a comp that had the same symptoms as yours, and before I decided to pull the HD to put it on my bench system I popped the cmos battery and it rebooted and is still running two days later... The cmos apparently got scrambled when the PS failed, why I don't know... just a suggestion.
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2006-11-27 10:25:04 · answer #1 · answered by Fremen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be a good idea to try it on another computer just to see if it powers up. It may shut down on you because the Windows configuration ( drivers, dll files, etc...) is set for another computer. This will at least tell you the drive is working and that maybe the problem lies with something on the motherboard of the other computer. It could be that when the power supply went dead it may have shorted out the connection for the HDD or the HDD itself. Have you tried another HDD on the computer at work?
2006-11-27 10:26:51 · answer #2 · answered by bravadoca 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the power supply shorted out and burnt out the HDD.
2006-11-27 10:17:12 · answer #3 · answered by Joey Joe, yo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is exactly what happened to my Emachines computer. Your computer is done, a goner, burie it in your family grave yard. Just kidding...
2006-11-27 13:58:18 · answer #4 · answered by ameer_ghani2005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check the ide cables are properly plugged in as this can cause problems.
2006-11-27 10:22:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋