[stella_tommo]

hi everyone, just a quick post cos this one is puzzling me.

basically, when i power on, the fan starts up for like 1 second, then it shutsdown. ive narrowed it down, and its only when the harddrive is plugged in to the power, with or without ide. the dvd drive does not cause this problem. the harddrive works fine, ive just had it put into another pc to format and put xp on. so whats causing this? a bad psu? is a the current drain that the hdd is pulling to spin up, causing psu to shutdown???

thanks for any help, this one is annoying me!

:4-dontkno

 

[Tyree]

PC Specs?
Pre-Built Brand & Model Number
Custom Built-Brand & Model of Mobo-CPU-RAM-Graphics-PSU.

 

[stella_tommo]

sorry my bad! its an old dinosaur really but its usuable for net browsing etc, im hoping to get is sorted so my mother can use it.

erm its an

athlon 2400 cpu, runs at 2ghz
1500gb ram, 3 x 512, pc3200
asus 6200 (nvidia) graphics
mobo - a7n8x 2 deluxe
hdd is a 40gb idea seagate
psu was new about a couple of years ago, so actually not that new lol, just a cheap 350watt thing.

 

[stella_tommo]

had a 250gb hdd on it, which was killed by whatever fault this is. my sister was using it at hers, lost all my movies n tv series on it. v annoying. the 40gb hdd is an old one from a mate

 

[Wrench97]

It's probably a failing Power Supply, cheap PSU's can fail in strange ways and take other components out with them.

 

[stella_tommo]

gonna order another cheap one form amazon to see, but i dont get why the dvd drive would work but the hdd not. does the hdd use a great deal more power?

 

[Wrench97]

Start up uses more but not a great deal more.