Railven Posted April 6, 2003 Posted April 6, 2003 Alright I've been dealing with this problem for a while now and I still can't figure it out. Maybe someone can share some light on it. I built a system that uses: MSI 645-E MAX Motherboard, 512MB Crucial PC2700, 300W PS, 2 CD-Drivers (One not sure, second 52x/24x/52x MSI), Floppy drive, Samsung 5400RPM ATA66 20GB HDD, ATI 7000, Yamaha Sound Card, D-Link NIC, 56k Modem, and all the wiring is correct. Double checked. Using a standard FDD cable, a ATA100 Dual IDE cable for the CD drives, and a ATA133 Dual IDE cable for the hard drives. The big problem is when I first built it and got everything installed it worked fine, no problems. Now once in a while it wont boot (HDD wont load Windows), and if I get into Windows it would freeze without giving an error, other times if I use a CD in the 52X drive it freezes the system. When it does freeze you have to hit the power to reboot it and sometimes it wont boot properly, meaning the cards arent being read. So I have to jiggle the powersupply mobo connector to get it to work again. I have assumed the following: 1. Need a stronger power supply. 2. Reinstall Windows XP 3. Rewire everything again 4. Conclift between IDE drives. 5. HDD is causing trouble because seomtimes the HDD light just stays on. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. RAILVEN Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_189 Posted April 7, 2003 Posted April 7, 2003 Question Are u overclocking??? 300W power supply is sufficient enough Dint you say you only had 1 hdd drive ?? so how could the hdd be conflicting!!! umm mostly like i would suggest to backup yer data and re-install XP probably sum bugs or registry is scrambled.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinal Posted April 7, 2003 Posted April 7, 2003 take the top off the ps check and make sure all the wires are connected in their correctly and ya you need a bigger ps Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted April 7, 2003 Posted April 7, 2003 doubtful thats the problem, Im running a GeForce 4, 2 cd-rom drives, 2 hdds, 1 fdd::smirk:: had upto 4 pci cards in here not to mention my 8 fans. there might be some loose connections in the psw but its wattage is okay. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinal Posted April 7, 2003 Posted April 7, 2003 your pushing that ps to the limits then so why did it work after you jiggled it? obviously something is loose Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railven Posted April 7, 2003 Posted April 7, 2003 I figured it out. It was the new writer I had purchased. First I set the jumpers wrong, after fixing that I realized that the writer's light were blinking irregularly. So I called up MSI and they said that the drive had a defect and that it should be removed. I removed that writer and everything else worked fine. Not a problem now, cept I need to get a new writer. thanks for the advice guys and as for the jiggling the power cable, who knows but I haven't had to do it since the writer was removed. RAILVEN Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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