Weird problems on AMD Duron after installing a new harddrive.

[jsbush]

A friend added a 30gig hard drive to his system not long ago. Since then he has had lots of problems with his computer. When he turns it on sometimes he gets a click click noise from the 30gig hard drive. Sometimes his computer will freeze and when he boots it back up it will say "primary master disk fail".

I tired his 30 gig hard drive on my computer, and I never got a click click noise and it never gave me any errors.

Heres his specs:
Amd Duron 600 @ 600mhz
Abit KT7
256megs of PC133
30gig Maxtor 7200rpm hd
6.4gig Fugistu hd (connected as slave on the same cable as the 30gig)
HP 8200 4x4x24 Burner
Vodoo 3 PCI
SB Live
ISA D-Link 220 network card
250watt power supply


I was thinkin it might be a power problem.
Anyone have sugestions on what to do?

 

[sandorski]

Clicking sounds are bad. Try putting it(the slave drive) onto the same cable as the burner. Also do a drive test on the old drive, I've had one hard drive go bad on me when adding another drive before.

 

[jsbush]

I tried that already, and even with only the 30gig connected (no burner or slave drive) it still gave the same errors. I changed the ata66 cable and put a new one on and still got the same problems.

The 6.4gig hd works fine and runs scandisk test without any problems. Also when I put his 30 gig on my computer to test it out, I would purposly try to get it to make the click click noise by turning my computer on and off but it would never do it. I also ran scandisk and filled about 20gigs up on it and never gave problems.



Oh and his computer reboots for no reason with the 30gig in there.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

either the PSU or the mobo

 

[jsbush]

Thanks, I'll try a 300watt power supply next time I see him.