Components:
p5n-em hdmi asus
ide western digital hd 600
sata cdrom lite on
intel dual core 3ghz
psu is 500w
New parts
I can access the bios menu when the HDD has no power and even run the cd rom with windows xp install cd. As soon as I connect the HDD to the psu the whole thing freezes. It hangs at the command screen for bios but if I unplug the HDD from the psu with everything running The bios loads.
I think its because its and ide drive and I should just go get a sata hdd and solve my problem but I don’t see why I shouldn’t be able to format from a regular ide hard drive
