quicky008
Technomancer
I have an old pc with the foll. config:
core 2 quad q9400,msi g31 mobo,2 gb ram,80gb HDD,frontech 450 w PSU.
It was working fine till yesterday.Today i decided to upgrade its storage and so i bought a 500 GB seagate HDD from a local store-the hdd appears to be a refurbished one.
However after i installed it and turned the pc on,it powered up for a few seconds and then turned off immediately.I tried switching it on by pressing the power button on the cabinet but it didn't work.
Then i unplugged the power cable and plugged it back and then turned it back on-again it did power up but switched off almost immediately.I observed that after it switches off on its own,it doesn't turn on until i unplug and replug the power cord,which is a bit strange.
I thought the psu might have gone bad,so i checked it by disconnecting it from the pc and shorting the green and black wires on the 24 pin mobo connector-the psu fan started spinning and it didn't turn off or display any unusual behaviour,which seems to suggest that the psu is probably ok.
I tried reseating all the peripherals on the mobo,and then attempted to turn it back on but to no avail-again the same issue occurred.
I don't understand what could have gone wrong all of a sudden-it worked fine till yesterday.I read somewhere that if a hdd is faulty or has some kind of short in it,then it might damage a pc on being connected.Is it possible the new hdd might be defective and has caused some damage to the motherboard or any other component,thereby causing it to stop working?
Please help me resolve this issue,thanks.
core 2 quad q9400,msi g31 mobo,2 gb ram,80gb HDD,frontech 450 w PSU.
It was working fine till yesterday.Today i decided to upgrade its storage and so i bought a 500 GB seagate HDD from a local store-the hdd appears to be a refurbished one.
However after i installed it and turned the pc on,it powered up for a few seconds and then turned off immediately.I tried switching it on by pressing the power button on the cabinet but it didn't work.
Then i unplugged the power cable and plugged it back and then turned it back on-again it did power up but switched off almost immediately.I observed that after it switches off on its own,it doesn't turn on until i unplug and replug the power cord,which is a bit strange.
I thought the psu might have gone bad,so i checked it by disconnecting it from the pc and shorting the green and black wires on the 24 pin mobo connector-the psu fan started spinning and it didn't turn off or display any unusual behaviour,which seems to suggest that the psu is probably ok.
I tried reseating all the peripherals on the mobo,and then attempted to turn it back on but to no avail-again the same issue occurred.
I don't understand what could have gone wrong all of a sudden-it worked fine till yesterday.I read somewhere that if a hdd is faulty or has some kind of short in it,then it might damage a pc on being connected.Is it possible the new hdd might be defective and has caused some damage to the motherboard or any other component,thereby causing it to stop working?
Please help me resolve this issue,thanks.
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