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shardian:
I got a pc from work in which the power supply blew up. I replaced the power supply and booted the system. It booted fine, but after the windows load bar left and windows desktop is supposed to pop up, the pc reboots. I tried booting from an xp cd and jut starting fresh, but that also stalls out and reboots when it gets ready to install. I reseated the IDE connectors, power connectors, and tried multiple configurations of the RAM. At one point with one stick of ram in slot one, the pc did get a bit further. I was actually able to format the drive using the xp disc, but when it finished and started the xp install, it rebooted again.
Now the weird part:
I decided to take the HD ( which is a 30gb WD caviar - I know are unreliable crap) and put in my home pc as a slave drive. Windows started, and I scheduled a complete scan for the suspect drive. It scanned and showed good. Then the pc rebooted and while I wasn't paying attention it started the scan again. :angry: Anyways, it probably scanned 3 times. I finally came back in and there was some error showing during the boot up. I figured that meant the suspect drive failed, so I shut down, removed the bad HD, and rebooted the home pc. Guess what? Now the home PC does the EXACT same reboot at windows start thing!!! I have no frikkin clue what to do now. What could a bad (formatted, I might add, with only xp install files loaded)drive have done to my PC to cause this reboot issue??
I'd be more than happy to reward whomever is able to help me.
And yes, I have tried safe mode, safe w/ command prompt, last known Good config, etc. ANytime either pc even sniffs windows, it restarts.
ChadTower:
In the home PC, is there anything connected to the IDE channel you scanned the WD drive on?
BTW, I've had quite a few WD Caviar drives over the years, and have never had one fail. Never put suspect parts into a machine you can't afford to lose. Keep an old motherboard around for that so you can whip a test machine together on your bench when you need it. I keep an old ~P400 range motherboard around for that purpose.
shardian:
A CD Burner. I'll try puling it.
ChadTower:
My first thought is that the drive is what killed the initial PC by damaging that IDE channel, and when you booted it in your home PC, it did the same there. Hopefully it didn't fry the IDE controller as a whole.
Toss that hard drive into the trash. Save the jumper - I can never find one of those when I need one.
shardian:
unplugging the burner did nothing. I've never heard of a "working" HD frying a mobo. I downloaded the ultimate boot disk thing I found on the net. I'm gonna try running a few of the tools on there.
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