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Hard drive problem,please help

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I have a Maxtor DiamondMax plus 9 120 gb ata/133 harddrive with win XP that i want to install into my computer,but everytime i hook it up and turn the power on my computer powers up for about 2 to 5 seconds then shuts down.I have everything connected the right way,and have tried the jumper on master and cable select.I did contact Maxtor back when i first got the drive and there was a setting in my BIOS that allowed me to boot into win xp so i know my computer can handle the drive.I guess I should have never took the damn thing back out,can someone help.
Thanks
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no wonder a 300w psu simply isn't powerful enough to run 10 hdd's at once.
 
lol, he is saying its the diamondmax 9 series, not 9 hdds.

Does the computer stay on with the hard drive taken out?
 
I never tried it with the harddrive out before,and yes it's just one harddrive :)
 
Take the hard drive out and see how long the computer stays on for. Even though it doesn't boot into anything. Just curious.
 
Ok i disconnected the harddrives ribbin and power cable and the computer started up and the bios didn't see a harddrive and then it said i needed to insert a bootable disk,but the computer stayed on and just sat there.
 
try jumping into your bios and re-enabling that setting again so it works properly?
 
I'm not sure what maxtor had told me to change in the bios and when i contacted them again we just went round and round with no luck,(even tho i told them about what they did the first time)
 
Well two things. Try to see if your BIOS has a setting that allows for hard disk boot up or power up delay. It may be on the main BIOS settings screen or somewhere with harddisk auto-detection listing, no definite place for this, and it's rather rare these days to have that option in bios.

Secondly, your PSU may be dying, old sys of mine was doing similar stuff for about month before it died. 250Watt PSU was heavily overloaded, 4HDs 3CDRW GF4600 P3-1Ghz
 
Another thing it could be that windows is corrupted and needs to be re-installed.
 
If you have an NForce4 motherboard, theres a possibility you have a maxtor hard drive that is incompatible.
Maxtor screwed up and made some hard drives that wont work with NForce4 chipsets.
I wouldnt expect it to turn the PC off though.

Can you try the hard drive in another PC?
 
I'll try the Bios again and look around the settings,I may be able to try a newer stronger psu as well.
 
Theres nothing that i can find in my bios that allows for hard disk boot up or power up delay and I just put a new PSU in my computer,i'm now running a 450 watt PSU and still have the same problem when I hook up my Maxtor drive. :mad: this thing is going to drive my nuts :confused: Maybe I should have another go at the Maxtor support and see what they say.
 
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