I just bought a 250gb WD HDD yesterday, and I installed it. The first problem i had was that when i turned it on all that happened was the fans, neons, and a continuous beep turned on and nothing was displayed on the monitor. I opened it back up and found that the temperature gauge in the front of the case had come unplugged, but would that really cause the computer to refuse to start? I then turned it back on and it came up like normal. I then continued on to install xp home edition on the drive, but while it was partitioning the new drive i started to hear clicking coming from my computer. I got a blue screen soon after the clicking started, and it restarted the computer. When it started back up the windows xp install cd couldn't find the hard drives although they were listed in the bios. I restarted again and got the same result. I came back a couple hours later and turned it on and it started up like normal so i continued and successfully installed xp. Then this morning I attempted to install linux on my old 80gb WD HDD and during the installation i started to hear the clicking again so i shut down my computer hoping that doing that would stop it from having the same problem with not being able to see the hard drives. However, when i started it up about 2 hours ago it could see the drives in the bios but it wouldn't boot from the new drive that i had installed xp on. Is my new hard drive bad? My old one? Or something else?
This may be off topic but im not sure if it could have an impact on all this. Every once in a while i get a message on startup from the MOBO saying that the overclocking on my processor failed. Not sure if this has any bearing on the hard drive problem though.
This computer has been nothing but trouble for me since i bought it used from my parents coworker about a month and a half ago, but up until now it was all software problems rather than hardware.
MOBO: Asus K8v SE Deluxe
HDD Master: 250gb WD2500JBRTL <--NEW
HDD Slave: 80gb WD800?????
Video Card: GeForce 6800 GS
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ overclocked
This may be off topic but im not sure if it could have an impact on all this. Every once in a while i get a message on startup from the MOBO saying that the overclocking on my processor failed. Not sure if this has any bearing on the hard drive problem though.
This computer has been nothing but trouble for me since i bought it used from my parents coworker about a month and a half ago, but up until now it was all software problems rather than hardware.
MOBO: Asus K8v SE Deluxe
HDD Master: 250gb WD2500JBRTL <--NEW
HDD Slave: 80gb WD800?????
Video Card: GeForce 6800 GS
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ overclocked