Problem With Built PC

[Nubius]

yeah salvaged HD's can be iffy...got one myself in my computer

Anywho, like I said, remove the HD's from the motherboard and start up your system so you can see if the computer POSTs aright. If your computer POSTS and then goes to a prompt (which it will since you have no hard drives) then you know one of the HD's is causing the issue. THen it's a matter of trial an error. Plug in the 20gb...power on...if system doesn't freeze then it looks like it's your 7gb

 

[jfav15]

yeah i already tried that and it froze at the set up screen. any other ideas?

 

[hbcao2004]

lol, maybe you should bring it to a computer shop

 

[jfav15]

i'll pass...

 

[dot]

make sure that one of the hard drives is set to master while the otherone is set to slave, having both at the same setting WILL cause problems like this.

 

[jfav15]

there is only one HD in at a time...

 

[xteam02001]

its not worth your trouble trying to salvage old parts to make a computer. making a computer from old parts is always troublesome. just save up some money and get a new computer

 

[jfav15]

to those curious i finally had the time to troubleshoot my problem and figured out that it was the video card that was casuing the problem. the computer works fine with another video card i tried.

never give up and give in to doing things the easy way b/c it can be done...