Emergency! Final Paper on my comp?.Please Help!

[Cainxinth]

My final paper is on my comp and I?m having troubles. I installed an ide card and a third hard drive, everything was working fine. But now, every time I even plug in the power supply the comp turns itself on and just beeps once per second. Monitor doesn?t even come on. Please help, I?m desperate. I have until 8 tonight to get the paper!

 

[copyfixer]

It is likely the memory or cpu went to heaven. With 3 hard drives, I hope you have a heafty power supply. It could be too high of a drain on the ps eventually damaged things. Try disconnecting a hard drive, reinsert memory sticks and cpu if possible and fire back up. Since you are in a pinch. Take the hard drive your paper is on, set it up as slave, and find another computer to use it on. Good Luck.

 

[Cainxinth]

I have a 430 w, so I think Im okay on power. I reseated everything and suddenly its working. Thanks for your help.

 

[Hessakia]

3 drives a drain on a PS? sure, but its not that big of a deal...
i have 4 hard drives (2 WD 80gb SE drives, 1 Maxtor 80 GB 540DX drive, 1 Maxtor 160GB drive), a DVD Drive, a 40X CD Burner, Athlon XP 1600+, NIC, SB Live, ATA133 IDE Controller Card, 4 Case Fans, a Blue Neon, and a ATI 8500 Vid card all on a 400Watt PSU

 

[copyfixer]

Hessakia:
$$$$$ people like me get paid to fix machines like yours. True 400w is lots of ps. How is your breakdown though? How many watts to 12volt, 5 volt etc. How does this compare to your draw when everything is running? That is the question. I am not trying to bark at you. It is just a question I asked of him.

 

[Hessakia]

copyfixer: i understand what your saying, but i pay $$$$$ into my hardware so ppl like you won't have to fix it
i understand that your not barking at me or anything--i would list the specs of my PSU, but i dnt have my case off right now....my PSU is a little on the low side for my 12V and 5V rails, but not low enough to cause any problems. also a lot depends on how new your drives are, cuz older drives aren't as power effecient as newer drives--at one point, i had an Athlon 1.0@1.33ghz, 3 hard drives, burner, dvd all on a 250 watt psu and never had a problem (that PSU was a trooper too )

ehehe

anwyays.
hess.