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Old 12-01-2006, 07:59 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Adding a second hard drive increases the system's power requirements by about 25W. With a 400W PSU this might be enough to tip it over the edge, depending on what else you have in there.

Enter your details into this power calculator and add 30% to the total.


As HWM says, try the new drive by itself set to master on IDE0 to see what happens. If there is no OS on this drive, use a boot floppy, then type C: when it boots to see if the drive can be read.
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