heron_jownze
02-14-02, 11:35 PM
Just got my new machine running a few days ago ( ill put specs at the end). Everything is perfect! I leave my computer for about one hour, and come back to it noticing that the hard drive light is stuck ON. It was still working perfect tho, so I restart.
When I restarted, NONE of my IDE devices were detected. I go into BIOS, and try to auto detect, but it finds nothing. So I power everything off, and try different molex connectors and make sure everything is plugged in right. I try to boot up and still nothing! So one again I fiddled with the connectors, and after a few more times of trying, it detects the hard drive, but now it doesnt detect my DVD and CDRW!!!. Boots into windows and still doesnt see them.
I try to restart and cold boot, still nothing, so I said screw it and I go to class and return 4 hours later......... Came in here, turned the power on, and EVERYTHING is detected and seems perfect again! This is confusing even for me because its working perfect one moment, then dead the next, the perfect again, WTF!
I ran disk checking, error checking and defrag, nothing! If anyone has any clue please help, I need a stable system! Here are my specs
Win 2000
AMD 1800XP with Volcano 7 (not overclocked)
Abit KR7A
1024 megs of pc2100 DDR
Western Digital 60gig 7200
Radeon 8500
Sony 16X DVD
LiteON 32X burner
Hercules game theatre XP
Round IDE cables (could they be defective somehow????)
300 watt PS
2 case fans, active ddr cooling, slot fan, crystal orb, 3 fan HDcooler
My +5V is ~4.92 and +12V is ~11.92
When I restarted, NONE of my IDE devices were detected. I go into BIOS, and try to auto detect, but it finds nothing. So I power everything off, and try different molex connectors and make sure everything is plugged in right. I try to boot up and still nothing! So one again I fiddled with the connectors, and after a few more times of trying, it detects the hard drive, but now it doesnt detect my DVD and CDRW!!!. Boots into windows and still doesnt see them.
I try to restart and cold boot, still nothing, so I said screw it and I go to class and return 4 hours later......... Came in here, turned the power on, and EVERYTHING is detected and seems perfect again! This is confusing even for me because its working perfect one moment, then dead the next, the perfect again, WTF!
I ran disk checking, error checking and defrag, nothing! If anyone has any clue please help, I need a stable system! Here are my specs
Win 2000
AMD 1800XP with Volcano 7 (not overclocked)
Abit KR7A
1024 megs of pc2100 DDR
Western Digital 60gig 7200
Radeon 8500
Sony 16X DVD
LiteON 32X burner
Hercules game theatre XP
Round IDE cables (could they be defective somehow????)
300 watt PS
2 case fans, active ddr cooling, slot fan, crystal orb, 3 fan HDcooler
My +5V is ~4.92 and +12V is ~11.92