I took a hard drive out of one tower that was not working and put it into another tower and it booted up fine. I take the same hard drive and put it into its original tower and it will not work. I have tried setting the jumpers, i have also tried a diffrent ribbon cable. If I put my windows XP disk in and try to repair, it goes through the motions but still no boot up.
2007-04-21 17:07:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Motherboard might be bad or the power supply might be bad.
2007-04-21 17:15:14 · answer #1 · answered by Flyflinger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First check the your power supply if it is working in good condition if not change it to another power cable and be sure to attach properly the data cable (the ribbon you said).
Second setup the bios in default settings their may be changes which you did in the past (refer to your motherboard manual or website to know how to set the bios in default settings)
Third check your jumpers of your drives specially if u use the settings of having slave...(refer to ur hard drive website for jumper settings). If you use the slave settings, try to remove the other drives by just retaining the harddrive to test if ur jumper settings is correct. If it is working as master single so the problem is your jumper settings.
If the three method does not work your other hardware components has problems. I hope my reply will help you greatly...gudluck =)
2007-04-21 17:34:10 · answer #2 · answered by joseph m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I take the same hard drive and put it into its original tower and it will not work." doesn't tell us anything. Does the original PC give any error messages? Can it start Windows?
Do this:
Try to install XP from cold boot. If it sees the hard drive, continue. If not, check the BIOS, if your hard drive isn't listed, recheck cables and jumpers.
Then re-post with all the details.
2007-04-21 17:20:36 · answer #3 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could be any number of things. The bios might be bad (flash bios) on the computer, the IDE controller might be bad (new mother board), the power supply might be bad (suspect that first). Or the bios and/or mother board simply may not support the type of drive you have.
2007-04-21 17:25:12 · answer #4 · answered by nasonguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be a bad bios, could be a bad motherboard, could be bad memory, could be a lot of things.
2007-04-21 17:10:10 · answer #5 · answered by Stuart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋