Hi guys. Small problem I'm having here at my office with a couple of older PC's. Here goes.
My personal PC here at work wouldn't boot (I think I mistakingly deleted some files that I thought were malicious, that were instead important to the OS), so I removed the HD, installed a spare I had, reloaded XP, and got the PC working fine. I then "slaved" my old drive to another PC in the office, to retrieve my valuable data and files. The problem starts here. The PC I slaved my old drive to (an HP Pavilion 7955 from 2001) started smelling like burnt rubber. to me, it smells like the PSU is cooking. The PSU is a Bestec model atx 1956d, and it's a measley 200w unit. My question is two fold. Could it be that I overloaded the PSU by slaving a 2nd Hard Drive? If so, could I replace it with an spare PSU I have from a junk PC I've got sitting around. The junk PC has an Allied model AL-A300atx, that's got 300w of juice.
Any and all advice is appreciated.
My personal PC here at work wouldn't boot (I think I mistakingly deleted some files that I thought were malicious, that were instead important to the OS), so I removed the HD, installed a spare I had, reloaded XP, and got the PC working fine. I then "slaved" my old drive to another PC in the office, to retrieve my valuable data and files. The problem starts here. The PC I slaved my old drive to (an HP Pavilion 7955 from 2001) started smelling like burnt rubber. to me, it smells like the PSU is cooking. The PSU is a Bestec model atx 1956d, and it's a measley 200w unit. My question is two fold. Could it be that I overloaded the PSU by slaving a 2nd Hard Drive? If so, could I replace it with an spare PSU I have from a junk PC I've got sitting around. The junk PC has an Allied model AL-A300atx, that's got 300w of juice.
Any and all advice is appreciated.