Argh! Help me!

[Xanthropos]

I've just gota new PSU as my old one had died, and now i have another problem

Everything turns on, but as soon as my pc tries to boot from a HDD, it resets and makes the 'power on' beep again.

I have 2 hard drives, both IDE, and the odd thing is that sometimes it all boots up fine, but ONLY if i have only one hdd plugged in. Even odder is that sometimes one works, sometimes the other works, and more commonly neither does!

Basically, WHAT IS HAPPENING!

:S :S :S !

Xan

 

[ge0stuff]

File mou give a full description of all the parts and the PSU.

 

[Xanthropos]

AMD64 3000+
ATI radeon 9800pro
Gigabyte GA-k8NS mobo
Thermaltake 500W TR2-500W PSU
2 x Maxtor Diamondmax HDDs - one 80gb,one 120gb
2GB Crucial DDR400

Various fans - I've added one since I last used my PC - could this be the problem?

 

[ge0stuff]

Have u tried using both HDD as boot disks?

Maybe the problem is in one of the HDDs...

Try installing the Op Sys in the other disk...

 

[MrsD]

Turn off your power supply and unplug it. Take out all your cards and re-seat them one at a time. Do the same with your memory. Make sure their isnt a windows cd in your drive and make sure your set to boot from primary hardisk, not cd. Other than that dunno.

 

[Xanthropos]

I've tried taking everything out and putting it back in - didnt help.

When I tried to install windows on my second HDD, i got an error, just after 'press F6 to install SCSI or RAID drivers':

Unexpected Error (191902023) occured in line 1773 in 'd:xpsprtm/base/bootsetup/arcdisp.c.' (slash = backslash)
Press any key to continue.

I can't find this file anywhere,and I can't tell if it's a file on the CD, or on my HDD...

On the press of a key it resets the PC again....

:?

 

[Xanthropos]

Bump! help!

 

[Xanthropos]

Update: I disconnected the CD drive and it's started working... ill report back if it seems stable.

Could i have been drawing too much power from one molex lead?

cheers

xan

 

[Hawkeye22]

A faulty/failing device on the IDE channel can effect other devices on the IDE channel.

 

[Xanthropos]

Ah, that would make sense... I have a feeling my DVD drive is on the way out then


cheers guys.

 

[bombasschicken]

you know whats odd?? i have the exact same setup... board and everything.. (plus a little more.. 5hd 2dvdrw) and the same exact thing happned to me yesterday. for some reason the onboard ide just stoped working both primary and secondary.. sometimes i can get a boot if i only have one hd connected to the primary and nothing else.. not even the sata.. i origionally thouhgt it was a power supply issue but the local computer shop was already closed so i couldnt test that.. i figure 550 would be enough for all that.. but maybe its just a crapy power supply.. let me know what your outcome was...

 

[Xanthropos]

Hmmm very odd...

I haven't been able to resolve this either, getting the same as you now!

Having thought the removal of the DVD drive fixed it... after a few trials i found it hadnt.

I doubt it's the power, as if you have a good one and i've just bought a new one, i doubt it's that going wrong... :?

Well its nice to know someone else is having the same issues.

Maybe its the mobo playing up? do you have the same one?

 

[Xanthropos]

Hmm,what seems to be helping is turning the psu off, unplugging it, leaving it for a few mins, and then rebooting...
Maybe something's getting hot?

any help would be great! :?

 

[bombasschicken]

yeah same mobo exactly.. i dont get it.. its not the dvd driv.. i dont think.. i have 2 and both are new... i can remove them and it still is messed up. i dont know.. right now i have my main drive connected to a pci ata card and my system is running all sorts of slow.. but is running.. im a little upset about this mobo.. i dont think i will buy gigabyte again.. i wonder if someone else has this prob.. maybe the board is designed to fail on a certain day>?? haha.. that damn Y2K bug again....

 

[Xanthropos]

haha yeah... maybe lol

I have a new mobo coming today(hopefully) anyway for a new PC, so i'll let you know what happens when i try that one with all my kit.

xan