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Name: tucker2 Date: November 5, 2004 at 11:13:54 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: athlon 512 meg
Comment:
I have a gigabyte ga-7vt600 motherboard with 120 gig hard disk with 512 mem athlon xp my system sometimes boots with no detection of hard drive so i swapped this and still the same problems. Also sometimes it just boots fine and on other occasions nothing happens when you turn the pc on just fans spinning and hard disk with no screen. Have swapped memory to no avail have flashed bios. Still have no idea what the problem could be. Have changed ide cable tried ide 2 for harddisk same thing still happens. this is intermitant problem as still boots up normally as often as it does not. Also have had the pc restart when in windoes. Any ideas on what the problem could be?
Name: Grok Lobster Date: November 5, 2004 at 11:24:14 Pacific
Reply:
Try another power supply.
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Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill Date: November 5, 2004 at 12:23:39 Pacific
Reply:
Don't use cable select if you are.
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Response Number 3
Name: tucker2 Date: November 5, 2004 at 12:45:13 Pacific
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Would like to try another power supply but is there any way i can be sure this is the problem bit tight for cash at the moment. 2 cd rom drives on ide 2 set to master and the other slave. Hard disk set to master. In bios says the 5 volt line in 4.8 and think 12 volt line in about 11.9 will. Have already unplugged all usb devices and disconected cd rom drives as experiment no change in above values.
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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill Date: November 5, 2004 at 12:51:16 Pacific
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Is the Harddrive identified by model number in the BIOS? If not, try using the auto detect option on the same screen. Usually some keystroke.
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Response Number 5
Name: tucker2 Date: November 5, 2004 at 13:00:18 Pacific
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Thanks for replies so far every one. When pc boots up with recognised hard disk the drive is always identified correctly maxtor and a few numbers however if its when the pc does not recognise the hard disk and you go straight into the bios ( if pc boots problem is intermitent) and you try to auto detect nothing just wont detect the hard disk sometimes the cd rom drives too but no where near as often as the hard disk. but if i turn pc of and on again everything can be fine and dandy. The pc has even worked flawlesly for a week then all of a sudden no disk drive. At a loss don't know what i should invest in PSU or Motherboard. Have tested cpu in another machine no probs. so i'm ruleing out memory ( changed with spare i have) hard disk drive (been replaced) and cpu.
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Response Number 6
Name: Grok Lobster Date: November 5, 2004 at 13:36:32 Pacific
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Try your PSU in a working computer to be sure. At this point it sounds like the motherboard. Look for swollen/leaky capacitors.
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