Comp takes forever to turn on

[Clutchxiii]

Computer takes forever to turn on, we assumed it was the power supply because it was only 200w which probably was one of the problems but it still takes about 4 minutes to run. Its a 350w psu dual fans, the rear fan does not spin. Dont tell me its the psu cause this computer has given me soo much trouble i wont even believe that. Any suggestions?
btw: the computer listed below is not the computer im working on it is a

P4 1.6 ghz
Asus P4S333 mother board
512 ram
80 gig hard drive (that registers at 31.1)
geforce 2 64 mb
now* 350w psu

 

[tariqadkhan]

ammm.......u could try to reformat the drive. wenever the drive gets abit clustered it would tend to do that, it happened to my friend laptop and after a reformat, it ran perfectly and started with 30secs.

 

[Clutchxiii]

ammm.......u could try to reformat the drive. wenever the drive gets abit clustered it would tend to do that, it happened to my friend laptop and after a reformat, it ran perfectly and started with 30secs.

ok ill give that a try im gonna plug my old 10.2 g hard drive and see what happens.

 

[Clutchxiii]

oh nvm u were reffering to the hard drive size compared to the avaiable space yah 80 gig listing 31.1. I reformatted and recreated the particians 3 times. the magic number is 31.1 primary partion and larger disk enabled......and maximum allocation to hard drive yet still 31.1. It is windows 98, and i have partioned 80g and 60g hard drives on 98 before and acheived maximum disk space, but microsoft claims that windows 98 cannot partition more than 64g which is a lie because i have done more, but they claim to have an update for partioning which i will i will download once i get the computer to even turn on properly. thx for ur input