I’m not sure if you can post these types of questions here, if not sorry.
I got a Maxtor 160GB 5400 RPM hard drive and installed it just now as a slave in Windows XP. I turned on my computer, went into the BIOS and it was able to detect it so i proceeded with the startup and as it went into windows it also detected it and did the found new hardware thing. I went into disk management to give it a letter and format it and started that process. As it was going to take a while I assumed, I left the room to watch TV.
About 5 -10 minutes later I walk in to see that my computer is off. I push the button to start it back up but it doens’t work. I look in the back of the computer and the green power light isn’t on. So I unplug the power cord from the COMP and wait a few seconds. I put it back in and the power light goes on, so I turn on the computer. It gets to windows and immediately turns off and again does the thing where it doesn’t recognize the power until i take it out, wait a few seconds and put it back in.
So I open up my computer and unplug the power from the new hard drive. I boot it back up and it waits about 2 minutes before again turning off. I go back in and unplug the IDE cable from the new one so now it’s just sitting there not connected to anything. I power it up and again it waits about 2 minutes before shutting down (while I was just in IE, nothing that should have made it start over). I then waited like 5 minutes, went in put the fan duct back in the computer, put the cover back on and started it up (for the times before this, the cover and the fan duct were not attached).
And now this is where I am. My computer hasn’t restarted yet and it’s been up for a day now with no problems.
Do you have any idea what would be causing this problem with the new hard drive? Does it have something to do with the power source in my computer or what? Please help
Power supplly should be adequate for a second HD unless you got an elcheepo.
Tell us again just what conditions now exist.
After disconnecting the new HD completely did the computer boot up and run continuously without shutting down?
Did you set the master slave jumpers on the new drive correctly?
May have a problem with auto shut off or some such setting.
I don’t know the power rating of my PSU or anything about it, where can i find that out? Is it on the PSU itself? This is the computer I have, the only difference being I added 128 MB RAM:
I disconnected it completely and it still turned off once. Then after that I “patched” up the computer by putting the fan duct back on and putting the side cover back on and tried it again and it’s been on ever since.
I’m supposed to put the jumper on CS according to my computer’s manual, and that’s what it’s set on. It recognized the drive fine the first time and even started to format the drive so I could use it, but then turned off and that’s the furthest I got until I completely removed the drive.
Some machines have aan over temperature shutdown triggered by CPU overheating. Removing the fanduct may have also had an effect.
Addding RAM would not affect heating or shutdown situation.
Try reinstalling the new HD and put everything else back in place so that all is as received from HP with only the exception of the properly configured HD and the added RAM.