Emachine power supply

I have an old emachine T2893 that I am trying to get running for my grand daughter. When I attemt to boot, I get a message that I have a problem with the hard drive. Odd thing is when I first turn it on, the cooling fans run really fast but as soon as the HD starts, the fans run really slow. Anyone encounter a problem like this before? I think the power supply is the problem. Any help out there?

 

No I've never seen that exact problem but the first course of action should be to disconnect the hard drive to see if you can get into the bios and to see if the fans react the same.

 

perfectly normal

 

The hard drive could be drawing more than its fair share and dragging the PSU down, try connecting the drive to a different PSU and see if the same happens.

 

ya all are missing the point

its doing a self check I had a emachine that had a psu fan that would goto 100% fan until windows booted ... there is nothing wrong

 

Hi, welcome to Major Geeks!

What is the exact error message for the hard drive?