Hi,
Im looking for some advice because something very strange has happend with my PC.
The other day I turned it on in the morning, turned it off again and it worked fine. I went home later that night and went to turn it on, but it switched itself off less than a second after I switched it on, which is really strange!!
So I started to try and see if I could find out what the problem is. I presumed it could have been the power supply so I unplugged most things inside, leaving in the RAM and just left the power on the mobo, and it all worked fine. So I then plugged in the power on the SATA drives and it still turned on, then putting the data cables into the drives is where the problem occured. I can leave either one out and it will boot but both together seems to short something out, which is very strange.
The wierd thing is (and I know I could lose everything doing this) but starting with one and then plugging the other data cable in and restarting it boots up fine, so I have managed to get my work off, but I cant understand why they wont work together at initial start up.
Hope this makes sense, just wondering if anyone had any other ideas, I dont have any other SATA ports to plug into and try.
Thanks
Im looking for some advice because something very strange has happend with my PC.
The other day I turned it on in the morning, turned it off again and it worked fine. I went home later that night and went to turn it on, but it switched itself off less than a second after I switched it on, which is really strange!!
So I started to try and see if I could find out what the problem is. I presumed it could have been the power supply so I unplugged most things inside, leaving in the RAM and just left the power on the mobo, and it all worked fine. So I then plugged in the power on the SATA drives and it still turned on, then putting the data cables into the drives is where the problem occured. I can leave either one out and it will boot but both together seems to short something out, which is very strange.
The wierd thing is (and I know I could lose everything doing this) but starting with one and then plugging the other data cable in and restarting it boots up fine, so I have managed to get my work off, but I cant understand why they wont work together at initial start up.
Hope this makes sense, just wondering if anyone had any other ideas, I dont have any other SATA ports to plug into and try.
Thanks