Hard drive Problems.

[jcovarrubiasu]

Hi,
Recently I bought a new hard SATA drive for an OLD motherboard that supports only SATA-1 The first 2 months the drive worked correctly, but now I have the following problem:

I am running Windows XP SP2 professional and when the PC is not in USE (user locked) the PC reboots. When I tried to start the PC again the hard drive is not recognized (message is displayed indicating that the OS can't be load)

If I disconnect the HD from the Power supply and reconnect it again, the PC boots fine again.

What can be happening here?

- Jorge.

 

[unhappy_mage]

Have you checked that the power supply and memory are okay? Do you have another machine you could put the drive in temporarily to see if it causes problems there?

 

[jcovarrubiasu]

Thanks! it was the power suply, turns out that the it was damaged, and also damaged my mobo, it was old and it needed to be replaced.
Thanks.