Hi all,
I’m at a bit of a loss as to what is happening to my pc.
It’s a Celeron 2.4khz with 2 gig of Ram, a 120gig master drive, a 320 slave drive and a DVD player/burner as the secondary master, running XP SP2 with all latest updates.
It was running a little weird one day, so I did a cold boot, well attempted to as on reboot it just hung, the power LED was not on, but the HDD LED was stuck on and the monitor did not even boot to the BIOS.
I pulled the cover off and double checked everything was ok and then re-booted and re-booted without the primary slave and it was fine. I then shut down, and reconnected the primary slave and all was running well for about a week.
Upon powering up yesterday, it’s happened all over again.
I initially thought it might have been bad RAM as I had recently installed new RAM, but I have tried 4 different RAM cards now, so I’m not convinced it’s RAM.
I’ve checked and double checked that the jumpers are all se correctly on the 3 drives, but all seems fine.
The strangest thing it’s doing is that it seems that there is no power going to the HDD’s when the IDE cables are plugged in, but when the IDE cables are removed the HDD’s power up OK.
Regardless of whether the HDD’s power up or not, there is still nothing coming through the monitor – at leat if I could get to the BIOS I could start trouble shooting any system failures.
Anyone think that I might have a motherboard problem or a power supply problem?
