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Originally Posted by koala
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. |
Nice tool! According to the calculator I have 258 + 30% = 334watts so I should have plenty with the 400w psu. I'm consfused as to why my pc would act like that then.