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Rando:

Bah,
Spoke too soon.  PC kept giving me problems despite what tricks I tried, so last night I swapped the Power Supply with one I had and that worked from a Power standpoint, beast fired right up.

Created new problems however, where it's now giving me ChkDsk errors and scanning and rebooting and such.  After a few scans and trials it booted up in safe mode, then a few more errors and got it in regular mode, but still encountering errors.  Would a Power swap normally cause these problems?  Did I cause damage with my power problems?  Should I format and see if I can start from scratch?

Or is my Power Supply somehow incompatible? (Is that possible?)

BobA:

More than likely all your power problems caused disk problems from incomplete starts and powering up and down.  With a new supply I would try low level formating of the disk again and starting over.



Encryptor:

It would depend on what errors chkdsk is giving you. Are they just messed up index file type errors or are they bad sector moving data type files? If they are the second I would say all the rebooting and such has trashed your hard drive. If they are the first type then formatting and starting over should take care of them.

bkenobi:

I had a printer that got all screwed up somehow (it was an all-in-one, so it was basically another computer connected by USB).  I had unplugged everything except the USB stuff that I thought was just mouse and keyboard (and accidentally the printer too).  Long story short, the printer needed a hard reset and was somehow keeping the PC from posting.  Make sure you unplug everything except the power cord for testing.

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