A while ago my power supply died, so I replaced it with a 250 watt supply. Ends up when I replaced with the power supply that (I guess) the old supply took my HDD with it when it kicked the bucket. So I replaced the HDD with an old one lying about the house. It worked for a while then started to freeze up while making this beeping noise. I replaced that one with a brand new HDD and it has lasted for a while. But now is making that same kind of problem again. I notice the beeping occurs when the orange LED lights up (HDD LED right?). And I don't know ow to solve my problem. Is the power supply too weak? Is it over-heating? HELP save my HDD! In that current box is: - DVD-ROM Drive - Cd-RW Drive - 1x 512 ddr ram - Radeon 9800 pro (requires own power cord.) - 120Gb Seagate HDD - 1 side case fan - Athlon 2800 - MSI KT4V MoBo

Usually a HDD will not beep so it has to be something else. The 250W PSU is definately too weak for that system so it might be a case of unstable power only if you're lucky. I had this too with an older system but there my old 250W PSU finally started sending too much power into the system. At first the SCSI controllercard of my scanner didn't work anymore, the the graphic card started to act strange and finally an old harddrive vanished. Using MBM5 (Motherboard Monitor 5) then I realised that I had too much voltage in the system. Luckily the graphic card and harddrive worked again with the new PSU and my uncle found out that the card had a burned transistor and was able to replace it! I really hope that's not your problem because I think I was extremly lucky not too loose any hardware!

The PSU is definitely too weak. I bet the amperage on the +12v rail is about 11A. The CPU alone needs almost that much, add the HDDs, optical drives, cooling fans & a highend video card that needs to be plugged in, & you have a recipe for disaster. Get a PSU with at least 400W w/18A or better on the +12v. This one will do nicely: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153006 ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP1

I use a 15A PSU on my 64 bit system, but of corse it's also an ATX 2.0 PSU with dual +12v rails.

i agree with past posts. power supply way to weak. if you have a seagate, that is a common problem. you can actual fix that by going to seagate website and downloading repair utility. been there, done that.