Seemingly random failure

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Alyosha

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Tried to put a new hard drive in my machine last night, should be simple enough. Powered it back on, there was a short delay and the fans spun up for about 10 seconds and then it shut back down. Checked all cables to see if I knocked anything loose and tried again but then it made a "bip" type noise as if it was trying to start up but quit after half a second.

I've unplugged everything but video and keyboard and, on two occasions, gotten into the bios. Once there I figured I had found the offending loose connection and started plugging things back in only to have the machine go back to the same behavior. Now with everything unplugged it won't do anything.

My mobo has a post code read-out but it hasn't shown me anything useful. Any ideas as to what may be causing the problem?
 
I take it this is a second hard drive and that your other hard drive with your Windows install is still hooked up?

If you unplug the second hard drive does Windows boot normally like it did before you installed the second drive?
 
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