zelmo73
09-18-2003, 08:09 PM
I have an old custom-built Athlon 800 system with a Duron motherboard, 2 40 GB Maxtor 7200 hard drives with one permanently disabled, and a 500 watt power supply.
Here's what happened. A couple of weeks ago, my old power supply crapped out on me. It turns out that I was cranking out 375 watts through an old 250 watt power supply (2 40 GB hard drives, an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro video card, 2 CD drives, 640MB PC133 RAM, the motherboard, and a big cooling fan was what was running on it at the time). Anyway, I got somebody to install a new 500 watt power supply in my computer, but when I finally got it back home on Sunday night, I couldn't access my hard drive.
The hard drive that I was using was my old slave drive, because my primary hard drive died on me last year, but I never got around to taking it out of the machine. After messing around with the CMOS jumpers and BIOS, I managed to turn the old slave drive into my primary drive.
But now, I keep getting this Disk I/O error message, and I'm kind of at a loss as to how to continue. The hard drive is still being detected in the system BIOS, it just won't access it upon bootup.
I was going to take out the old primary drive and put the slave in its place anyway, but I was talking to my dad earlier and he said that there might be a switch that I might have to adjust on the hard drive in order to get it to work again. I was wondering if you guys could give me any pointers? Thanks!
Here's what happened. A couple of weeks ago, my old power supply crapped out on me. It turns out that I was cranking out 375 watts through an old 250 watt power supply (2 40 GB hard drives, an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro video card, 2 CD drives, 640MB PC133 RAM, the motherboard, and a big cooling fan was what was running on it at the time). Anyway, I got somebody to install a new 500 watt power supply in my computer, but when I finally got it back home on Sunday night, I couldn't access my hard drive.
The hard drive that I was using was my old slave drive, because my primary hard drive died on me last year, but I never got around to taking it out of the machine. After messing around with the CMOS jumpers and BIOS, I managed to turn the old slave drive into my primary drive.
But now, I keep getting this Disk I/O error message, and I'm kind of at a loss as to how to continue. The hard drive is still being detected in the system BIOS, it just won't access it upon bootup.
I was going to take out the old primary drive and put the slave in its place anyway, but I was talking to my dad earlier and he said that there might be a switch that I might have to adjust on the hard drive in order to get it to work again. I was wondering if you guys could give me any pointers? Thanks!