PC Doctors

skinnywolves

MY PC is ****ed.
Help!!!

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The story
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Ok, the pc is a Dell Demension 4400 that I got about 3 or 4 years ago.
Worked fine up until now.

Last year I installed a new Seagate 120GB extra hard-drive myself as a slave.

About a month ago, I could hear what sounded like, what I thought was the CD Drive struggling, but thought it would pass. Then while copying a CDR the pc just went to a blue screen.

I was unable to turn it on, except for say, every 15th time I'd try.

And that would take about 15minute to boot up/

I then figured it was probably the hard drive that failed.

After a while I reinstalled windows on the pc, thinking this would sort out my problem.

So, it installed its self it seemed on the large hardrive, without over writing my data.

(It originally booted from the dell hardrive, where i had all the programs, etc installed.)

So this worked fine for a while (except it took a while to boot up)

Now, it just wont boot up at all. Says it can not find the hard drive.

Tried to sort it out by changing the connection leads (IDE/ Scarts?) to see if it was them that were faulty, but it didnt help at all.

So anyway, I'm fed up trying to fix it by myself, and just wondering would anyone reccomend someone that would be able to help me ?

Thanks.

mp3guy

*could* be a power supply problem, but unless your PSU was a bear minimum, an extra HD wouldn't make that much of a difference.

skinnywolves

mp3guy wrote:

*could* be a power supply problem, but unless your PSU was a bear minimum, an extra HD wouldn't make that much of a difference.

someone mentioned that before.
my psu is set at 230.
what would you suggest?

formatman

PM me and I'll send you details of a company that can do a reasonable collect and reurn service

angelofdeath

could be any of a number of things, troubleshoot your hardware, try the harddrive in another machine, try a differerent psu if you can get your hands on one, boot up a live disto of linux to check if it's not a corrupt os installation, if none of these work then you may as formatman said want to send it to a pc repair technician

other simple things like reseating cpu/ram/agp/pci cards and resetting the bios, are things that are no harm to do

Wez

It'd be pretty handy for people if you posted it up..

I'd say try disconnecting the 120 gig and try boot off the other one. If that works fine you know it's just a problem with the 120. If you installed windows on the 120 (hard to understand, but what I get is that windows is on both hard drives. That right?) Then disconnect the original drive and set it to boot from the second hard drive.

Firstly you wanna try pinpoint the problem before finding out what exactly the problem is. This should help.

snappieT

Just send it to Marx Computers

They'll sort it out in no time.

formatman

did you get this sorted out ?