Recent content by blizeH

Many thanks again for the replies, I just tried a new PSU as suggested (it was the one from my parents computer, 260W! lol) and it worked just fine, so I've ordered a new power supply. Fingers crossed that is actually the problem and it's not just a coincidence! It's a 500W Antec modular one...

Bah, still no luck really. Earlier I tried: - Using the cables from my DVD drives instead of the current ones. Same problem, can't be the power or IDE cable - Resetting the CMOS No difference - Disconnecting/temporarily stopping fans No difference - Reseating the memory No...

Good call, thank you! I don't live anywhere near a local computer shop unfortunately, so it'd be hard to return a PSU, but I'll need a new one at some point anyway I guess so... meh! :)

My computer is making that exact noise over and over again when I first turn it on during the POST screen. Once it's done that, it sometimes continues to boot up (after around a minute of squeak, squeak, tick tick tick, squeak and repeat) but there have been one or two times where it hasn't...

Hi, sorry for the late responce, but what's marine RTV adhesive? Thanks, Nick

Hi there, I've got a faulty Seagate Hard Drive, it's an 80GB, 7200RPM and has actually been faulty since I had it, I just didn't realise. It was very slow at file transfers but I just assumed it was the standard speed to transfer files between drives (my main one with the windows partition, and...