mohsin_parwez
Broken In
My computer is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ based machine running on an Asus K8V-MX motherboard with 512mb Ram. Recently, one idiot who was visting my room (and I was away at the time) plugged the computer directly into the mains, bypassing the UPS. Apparently there was a power surge and the computer blew. I managed to get everything up and running, it seems that the SMPS took the direct hit, the processor, ram and MOBO seem to be working. The Problem is this:
1.I have an 80 GB Seagate SATA hdd, 7200 RPM, I think its a baracudda, I'm not sure. Anyway, there is a power converter that attaches to the Molex on the SMPS to convert it to the SATA type power jack. Whenever I plug my hard drive in, the whole system powers down. Is this a problem with the SMPS or the HDD or the MOBO? I mean, did the surge fry the SATA Controller, or the Hard Drive causing it to Short and the SMPS shuts down as a failsafe mechanism? I've tried connecting an old IDE harddrive to the computer and it works fine.
Is it possible to get the harddrive repaired? I live in Kolhapur incidentally, and if the repair is gonna cost me as much as a new hard drive, might as well trash it.
I'm thinking about buying a new HDD, I'm thinking about a WD Caviar, its SATA 7200RPM with a legacy Molex power connector along with the SATA power connector. If I can get the Seageate to work, then can I use both the SATA HDDs simultaneoulsy without commiting to a RAID configuration? That is will the system recognise them as two separate HDDs?
I also have an old Intel740 AGP graphics accelerator card that I found lying around the house so will installing that provide any benifits over the existing onboard VGA solution? Its only 8 mb I think, so I doubt that I'll be able to use it with Vista... any ideas on a cheap AGP/PCI chipset that will be good for Vista Ultimate? I happen to have a licenced copy.
Sorry for the long post...any ideas would really be apprecaiated.
1.I have an 80 GB Seagate SATA hdd, 7200 RPM, I think its a baracudda, I'm not sure. Anyway, there is a power converter that attaches to the Molex on the SMPS to convert it to the SATA type power jack. Whenever I plug my hard drive in, the whole system powers down. Is this a problem with the SMPS or the HDD or the MOBO? I mean, did the surge fry the SATA Controller, or the Hard Drive causing it to Short and the SMPS shuts down as a failsafe mechanism? I've tried connecting an old IDE harddrive to the computer and it works fine.
Is it possible to get the harddrive repaired? I live in Kolhapur incidentally, and if the repair is gonna cost me as much as a new hard drive, might as well trash it.
I'm thinking about buying a new HDD, I'm thinking about a WD Caviar, its SATA 7200RPM with a legacy Molex power connector along with the SATA power connector. If I can get the Seageate to work, then can I use both the SATA HDDs simultaneoulsy without commiting to a RAID configuration? That is will the system recognise them as two separate HDDs?
I also have an old Intel740 AGP graphics accelerator card that I found lying around the house so will installing that provide any benifits over the existing onboard VGA solution? Its only 8 mb I think, so I doubt that I'll be able to use it with Vista... any ideas on a cheap AGP/PCI chipset that will be good for Vista Ultimate? I happen to have a licenced copy.
Sorry for the long post...any ideas would really be apprecaiated.
