2 problems

Jezza112 · 07-04-2008, 09:25 AM

I wasn't quite sure where to post this. maybe someone had better move it.

I recently acquired a very old rig, but it had a nice big full tower case so I thought I'd start using it. It was set up with a 20 gig Windows XP HDD which works fine. This HDD also worked in my previous rig, which is also very old (I don't have a lot to spend right now). But When I tried the reverse, which is what I really wanted to do, and put my 80 gig XP in the new rig, it gave me no errors, but BIOS froze with a screen lsiting all the drives up to that one and stopping halfway through the entry. After a few days of wondering, I decided the built in IDE controller did not like my HDD because it was too big, so I bought a new PCI IDE controller. This seemed to be working fine with the 80 gig, so I tried booting from it. This was successful sort of, but it gave me a mup.sys error, the same HDD that had been working fine in my Dell Optiplex GX1.
This therefore must be a hardware error, possibly due to my PSU (215W) but comments are grateful.

More recently a much more annoying error happened. The Computer had been working fine with the 20 Gig, and I was using the 80 as an additional, but one time I tried to boot, it wouldn't. I pressed the button to turn it on, and all the fans started and I could hear the drives chuntering away to themselves, but there was not satisfying beep, and the screen did not turn on. I'm fairly sure this isn't a graphics error since in loading the computer will normally turn off with one press of the off button, but in these instances it needs to be held down. I managed to fix this last night, but I am not sure how, I just messed around inside a bit, but this afternoon I tried to use it but got the same problem.

I know the answer to this is going to be get a new mobo and a new PSU, but I'd like to keep this going as long as I can, and I'd rather repalce one of those and not both.

dai · 07-04-2008, 09:47 AM

start with the psu and buy now for what specs you are going to build to later,to save having to upgrade it again

07-04-2008, 09:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jezza112 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP SP2	2 problems I wasn't quite sure where to post this. maybe someone had better move it. I recently acquired a very old rig, but it had a nice big full tower case so I thought I'd start using it. It was set up with a 20 gig Windows XP HDD which works fine. This HDD also worked in my previous rig, which is also very old (I don't have a lot to spend right now). But When I tried the reverse, which is what I really wanted to do, and put my 80 gig XP in the new rig, it gave me no errors, but BIOS froze with a screen lsiting all the drives up to that one and stopping halfway through the entry. After a few days of wondering, I decided the built in IDE controller did not like my HDD because it was too big, so I bought a new PCI IDE controller. This seemed to be working fine with the 80 gig, so I tried booting from it. This was successful sort of, but it gave me a mup.sys error, the same HDD that had been working fine in my Dell Optiplex GX1. This therefore must be a hardware error, possibly due to my PSU (215W) but comments are grateful. More recently a much more annoying error happened. The Computer had been working fine with the 20 Gig, and I was using the 80 as an additional, but one time I tried to boot, it wouldn't. I pressed the button to turn it on, and all the fans started and I could hear the drives chuntering away to themselves, but there was not satisfying beep, and the screen did not turn on. I'm fairly sure this isn't a graphics error since in loading the computer will normally turn off with one press of the off button, but in these instances it needs to be held down. I managed to fix this last night, but I am not sure how, I just messed around inside a bit, but this afternoon I tried to use it but got the same problem. I know the answer to this is going to be get a new mobo and a new PSU, but I'd like to keep this going as long as I can, and I'd rather repalce one of those and not both.

07-04-2008, 09:47 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 42,069 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	Re: 2 problems start with the psu and buy now for what specs you are going to build to later,to save having to upgrade it again __________________