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My PC was working fine with multiple HDD installed. I have four (all
maxtor).
2 X 80Gb
1 X 120Gb
1 X 40 GB
All of a sudden my PC refused to start. The CPU fan would spin up then
immediately stop. I discovered that the only way to get the thing to
start was to remove all the IDE's (& 1 X DVDRW) unplug the PSU then
reconnect with just one of the HDD & the DVDRW.
I've checked all the other disks on numerous other pc's as primary
master's and as secondary slaves etc, they seem to work fine (including
booting to windows xp) in any configuration.
I changed my motherboard for another (fairly good one), but the problem
continues.
I've also noticed, despite clean XP Pro installations on any of the
HDD, everything seems to run slow like my old win98se 4Gb AMD 500 (32Mb
ram).
I've checked the memory and again can't find any probs, runs fine in
other PC's and showed nothing of note on the MEMtest86.
I put in a brand new (retail) AMD Athlon 3000 too.
I'm at a loss. Can anyone suggest anything please?
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Andreworld
My PC was working fine with multiple HDD installed. I have four (all
maxtor).
2 X 80Gb
1 X 120Gb
1 X 40 GB
All of a sudden my PC refused to start. The CPU fan would spin up then
immediately stop. I discovered that the only way to get the thing to
start was to remove all the IDE's (& 1 X DVDRW) unplug the PSU then
reconnect with just one of the HDD & the DVDRW.
I've checked all the other disks on numerous other pc's as primary
master's and as secondary slaves etc, they seem to work fine (including
booting to windows xp) in any configuration.
I changed my motherboard for another (fairly good one), but the problem
continues.
I've also noticed, despite clean XP Pro installations on any of the
HDD, everything seems to run slow like my old win98se 4Gb AMD 500 (32Mb
ram).
I've checked the memory and again can't find any probs, runs fine in
other PC's and showed nothing of note on the MEMtest86.
I put in a brand new (retail) AMD Athlon 3000 too.
I'm at a loss. Can anyone suggest anything please?
--
Andreworld