Hard Drive Failure

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davision

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I'm having trouble with a faulty PSU. I installed a 2nd hard drive and the machine failed to turn on.

After several hours, the PSU seemed to work again, but I tried to boot up with just the original (not the new) hard drive and it said HARD DISK FAILURE.

Now, I did change some jumpers on the hard drive... could an incorrect jumper setting or even the flakey PSU cause this message???

Or is the drive really dead? I can't see how it could be since nothing has happened to it during the install.

Any ideas....
 
I would make 100% sure that the sole driveyou have in your computer is set to master and that it is plugged into the last connector on your ide cable.

Check the bios and set your primary IDE channel to auto-detect if it is not already set to do so.

If you have a truely horrible PS or one that is in the middle of dying, it could have sent a spike to your HD and killed the little guy. Hope that's not the case...


best of luck to you
 
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