Maybe one you can help me…
My brother just bought a new motherboard, power supply, and graphics card to upgrade his system. We installed the new components without much trouble and the computer booted fine. However, about an hour later as we were finishing up installing new drivers, the monitor suddenly went black and the hard drive appeared to have powered down. When we tried to reboot, everything seemed to power up except for the hard drive. We tried all sorts of things with no success, and finally ended up replacing the IDE cable. That did the trick, and it booted up normally again. But a couple hours later we had to shut the computer off because of a bad storm and when we tried to turn it on again, the problem was back. We replaced the IDE cable AGAIN and the computer worked fine for the rest of the day, but sometime during the night the hard drive shut down again. Obviously, I don’t want to keep replacing IDE cables, I want to figure out what the real problem is. I can give all the hardware details if necessary, but I’m mainly hoping someone can just point me in the right direction.