screen blinking

[pottymonster]

alright, so i built this pc a year ago and its been running fine. i just put a a new hitachi 750 gig hd. what started happening is my screen goes black for maybe a second, and then comes back on. this normally happens once shortly after i boot up.

specs:
Thermaltake Silver Armor
eVGA 680i
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Corsair TWINX 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800MHz E.P.P. Memory
BFG 8800GTX
2 x WD Caviar 250GB
Plextor PX-755SA
Epsilon FSP FX700-GLN

any help on this would be much appreciated. im wondering if it has something to do with running 3 hard drives on one cable or something. really not sure.

thanks!

 

[dagger]

alright, so i built this pc a year ago and its been running fine. i just put a a new hitachi 750 gig hd. what started happening is my screen goes black for maybe a second, and then comes back on. this normally happens once shortly after i boot up.

specs:
Thermaltake Silver Armor
eVGA 680i
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Corsair TWINX 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800MHz E.P.P. Memory
BFG 8800GTX
2 x WD Caviar 250GB
Plextor PX-755SA
Epsilon FSP FX700-GLN

any help on this would be much appreciated. im wondering if it has something to do with running 3 hard drives on one cable or something. really not sure.

thanks!

3 hdds on one cable? IDE is 2 per cable, SATA is 1 per cable. It could be the 680i has some kind of conflict with the hdd. It's a pretty shaky chipset.

 

[WR2]

im wondering if it has something to do with running 3 hard drives on one cable or something. really not sure.

Running 3 HD on the same power cable is almost never a problem.
Is Windows already running when your screen goes black?

 

[pottymonster]

3 hdds on one cable? IDE is 2 per cable, SATA is 1 per cable.

sorry, i meant on one power cable coming from the psu.

and yes, windows is fully booted and im logged in. i havent seen any issues with the system, im just worried that it might have something to do with that new hdd being unstable.

 

[WR2]

Your two WDx250 are not setup in RAID are they?
Because you're already in Windows it seems to me its a driver problem. A hardware problem likely would have shown up before the OS loaded.
Have you tried switching to different SATA data connectors on the motherboard and testing?

 

[pottymonster]

my wd drives are not in raid.

when i get the chance, ill switch to a different sata cable and plug it into a different port on the mobo.

thanks for the help guys!