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Oh man....what now?

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Chowder Head

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Here's another one of my many problems this week.

Yesterday, I try to boot it up, it goes to the loading screen, then my hard drive starts to click more and more and then it asks me to replace the drive/

So today, I pop the case open, take out the old one, then put in one of my leftover 200GB Deskstar's.

I get all the connect everything, plug back in all the connections are try to start my comp when this happens. The second I attach the cordt to the power supply it immediately turnns on the green bulb, indicating it has power, then immediately goes off. I double checked everything and all the connections are in place.

If my power supply is dead, how can this be? I mean, it worked fine when my ticking time bomb drive was in there but then after I replace it, this happens. :(

Any ideas guys? I appreciate any advice you can lend out, thank you in advance!
 
davidhammock200 said:
Complete system specs, please. :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

Whoops, I'm sorry.

It's a HP Pavilion xt953
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?dlc=en&lc=en&os=228&product=59820&lang=en&cc=us&

I've had for a while now so age might be a factor. I'm not sure if the exact specs but the main ones are it has less than 512mb of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a Pentium III.

I know it seems like my power supply might of taken a dump due to th age of the thing, but I don't understand how it won't work when I put in some other drive. I even tried plugging the burnt one in and it still won't operate.

I would like to get it running so I can pass this down to my mother when I finally build my own computer.

Thank you in advance for any help.
 
Any ideas guys?

If I don't get this working soon, I'll be without internet for a while. And it really hurts my chances of finding out what to do when I don't have internet access.

Thank you all for any suggestions.
 
What the hell???

I go try to start up my other, older computer but I notice the green light was on? I press the button, and it powers up. Very weird that it just worked like that.

However, I boot it up but it doesn't detect an operating system. Since this isn't considered a power supply, I won't ask this here.

Hopefully it doesn't resort to this problem again, lol.
 
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