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motherboard or power supply problem

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by zick Jan 13, 2004 last reply Jan 15, 2004

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my pc will not start.there is power going to the motherboard(cause the leds do flash), but that's as far as it goes.

when it first started acting up it gave the error "hdd hard disk failure"

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by jschein Jan 14, 2004

Does it make any beeps?

Remove all video cards, network cards, memory..

Does it beep?

If no.. bad motherboard.

If it does, place in memory, try again... beep?

Put in video card, Does it beep / show initial boot up screen?

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by peab4yougo Jan 14, 2004

"HDD Hard disk failure" sounds to me like the sys can't see your hard drive, and therefore, cannot boot to C:.

Try booting to a floppy. If that works, you'll need to check and, possibly, replace your HDD. Check for things like loose data/power cables to and from the drive. Check the BIOS and be sure that your HDD is being detected. Remember that the BIOS calls the first drive "HDD0" (zero).

If you can't boot to floppy, you could be seeing a motherboard problem...particularly your IDE controller.

Without more symptoms, that's all I have.

by zick Jan 15, 2004

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by pooh_bear Jan 14, 2004

Like the other replies sounds like sys not detecting hard disk..when your system starts it will beep.ram count. the leds flash then it detects your hard drives. You should then see your hard drive detected on the screen, if not you will need to go into the bios setup and check the settings,and see if it will detect hdd maybe you should try a hdd that you know is good.
Also is hdd on the primary controler and is the hdd set as master,not as a slave just check incase.
cheers Bruce