Computer Boot Problems

Hi all,

I am new to this forum and hoping someone can help me.

I am sure if i would have looked out there I might have found the answer.

Recently i had a hard drive go bad. It did the normal clicking noise of death.

When i got everything installed on the new hard drive, the computer would just shut down completely. No certain task would make it do that. One time it didnt even get past the Boot Screen.

I have ruled out memory, psu, and processor. I am fairly computer savy but this one has me completely stumped.

I have not tried a bios update but i would be going to update 609 to 1507.

I am running an Asus M3N72-D Mobo.

Is there anything i should maybe try before i update bios?


Thank you for your time.

 

Greetings, bcfanwick.

We need some info from you: operating system and service pack #, type of hard drive, etc.

Does the drive appear in BIOS?
If this is a SATA drive, are there specific drivers that need to loaded?
Have you checked all power and cable connections?
Will the machine boot to the Windows CD, or to any type of boot disk?
When the machine shuts down, does it display any information?

 

Sorry. I should have provided that information.

I am running Windows XP SP3. The hard drive that crashed was a WD SATA 120GB, replaced with a WD 640GB SATA.

The drive does appear in BIOS. It appears just as it should.

All power connections to the board, drives, fans, etc are good.

I have not tried to boot to the Boot Disk, however i dont see why that wouldn't work.

When the machine shuts down, it's like you just hit the power switch. It is not a certain amount of time, or certain activities. It just seems to shut down when it wants to. But it does NOT display any information upon shutdown.

 

You're sure it's not the power supply flaking trying to power that larger hard drive?