Computer cannot boot after installing new Hard Disk Drive
- Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 0:26
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Today one of my affliate computer cannot boot after installing a new Hard Disk Drive.
The specification for the computer are a decent old Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz (socket 478) with 256MB DDR333 PC2700 RAM. She use the computer to run a cyber cafe server monitoring software to monitor client in her cyber cafe. The new Hard Disk Drive is an old Maxtor DiamondMax plus with 40GB capacity and was installed as a second Hard Disk Drive.
After installing the second Hard Disk Drive, the system failed to boot, and hang after detecting boot device, sometimes the system would hang during Windows XP loading screen.
By doing several diagnostic, I found out the main culprit which is causing the computer cannot boot after installing the new hard disk drive is the Power Supply unit. It seems that the old Power Supply Unit cannot cope up with the resource required by the second hard disk drive.
The problem was solved immediately after replacing the old power supply unit which is causing the computer cannot boot after installing the new hard drive with a new Power Supply Unit.
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which means, the moral of the story is… get a power supply with suitable power rating for your computer requirements. ie : 350W, 400W or 500W power supply