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Help ? Shuttle SN95G will not boot (IDE drives not detected)

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sausesq

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I built my first PC (Shuttle SN95G) 4+ years ago and it has worked almost perfectly ever since (Win2k SP4).

Last night I turned it on an it went through the boot screen and I noticed no IDE hard drives were detected. My LCD monitor stayed blank and the OS didn?t boot. I opened it up checked the connections, changed the GPU, went into BIOS and tried to manually select HD and it wasn?t listed. After spending 2+ hours trying to fix it I am not able to load the OS.

I?m afraid my hard drive (250gb Seagate) has failed. The strange thing is that there were no warning signs I?ve read about before. Only about 25gb are free on the HD and most of my data is not backed up. I defragged it for the first time in 6 months 3 days ago, but it did start many times since then. I can?t fathom losing my 300+ pictures of my 3 month old daughter and it?s also my wife?s work machine so I need to fix it ASAP.

What do you think the HD has failed or is the problem caused by something else? How can I fix it? If the HD is dead how do I recover the data from it? Thanks in advance.
 
if it's the stock PSU, I'd check that 1st with a multimeter, and if it's not stock, still check it. I owned a few and the only time I did not have a issue was when I modded it to allow a normal PSU to be plugged into it.
 
I don't think it is the PSU because I ran the system for 20 minutes after the screen went blank and the SFF PSU fan was running on high the whole time (I changed the BIOS setting to see how hot the air was blowing out).
 
Ok, I guess I'll have to buy one and try that or I'll pay my local comp. shop to do it.

I didn't realize that the stock PSU could power the fan like I said above and still be "broken". I thought it either worked or it didn't work. That is why I assummed it was the hard drive.

Assumming it is the stock PSU, how do I go about buying a replacement? Direct from Shuttle? I don't know much about SFF PSUs. I know normal size PSUs can be bought wholesale from vendors listed on pricewatch.com.
 
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