I have computer problems.

[CubaseRox]

Your Welcome,

Let us know if you fix it.

Good Luck!

[fireman_x]

What is the wattage of your psu? Adding a new hd will use a bit of power and if our psu didn't have enough power on startup it might have damaged your main drive.

[CubaseRox]

^^ Thats a good question, If you exceeded the threshold of the PSU, you may have overloaded something. You shouldnt draw a load to the PS's full capacity. Like house wiring you should use about 75% of its total output. (e.g. draw only around 300w from a 400w PS)

Here is a site that explains it in more detail.

It even has a chart to tell you which device uses X amount of power.


Power Supply Info

Hope this helps.

[mungo]

the OS is probably writing corrupt files to the writable part of the BIOS chip and causing the crashes

There is no writing to the BIOS, only a reflash or extremely evil virus will write to the BIOS.

Does the computer boot properly with "new" drive unplugged?

[CubaseRox]

Originally posted by mungo
There is no writing to the BIOS, only a reflash or extremely evil virus will write to the BIOS.

I meant it in the way that the OS while booted up constantly communicates with the BIOS to make sure all the devices are in place and working etc.

If there is an error amongst one of the hardware devices it could cause the computer to re-start suddenly like his does.

What I think happened is that when he put the drive in he may have forgotten to set the 2nd drive's jumper setting to slave mode. So when he booted it up the BIOS may have gotten confused because it seen 2 master drives. So when windows loaded the BIOS must have written incorrect files to the his OS disk. So now even though he disconnected the 2nd drive those "incorrect" files are probably still on the OS disk. He should try flashing the BIOS, and see if that fixes the restarting problem.

[stoned loner]

Originally posted by mungo
There is no writing to the BIOS, only a reflash or extremely evil virus will write to the BIOS.

Does the computer boot properly with "new" drive unplugged?

The extra drive that I attempted to install is not in there anymore.

[Jessiah]

I dont know if anyones said this yet, but my computer was built by my friends dad, and when i tried a floppy disk, i would get an error message. The solution, the cables into the back of the drive where put in backwards... try that out maybe...

[Smithy]

Clear your cmos by first unplugging your computer from the wall. Then remove the battery gentlely. Then move the jumper to clear the cmos. Then push in the on/off button to clear any residual current in your system. Then replace jumper, battery and reboot system. It should clear anything that may have written to bios. If you get to bios then make sure that your system is configured to the right speed of your computer and that everything should be back to default settings. This is what overclockers do all the time when they overclock too much or screw up something. FLashing your bios should be the last thing to do. IF still problems persist then your bios chip may be fried and you will need to RMA the board.