mikec

This is the weirdest thing I've seen yet. Using the computer and all of a sudden hear a nice POP sound come from it, and the machine immediately turns off. Figure the power supply is shot with the sound and smell...

Power supply is indeed shot, so I replace it with an Antec True Power supply. But when I wire everything back up hit the power switch, and nothing happens. WTF!? So I start the process of elimination, and as it turns out, one of my hard drives, a seagate barracuda 120gb (ST3120026A) is causing my computer not to boot up. If it's plugged into the power supply, regardless if the IDE cable is attached or not, the machine will simply not turn on with it attached to power! (side note: I have 2 HD's in this computer, and it will turn on with the other HD attached, just not the seagate!)

Attached this drive to another computer, same thing. My last resort was to put the drive in an external USB device I have, and that wouldn't turn on either.

I have never seen a hard drive's power connector go bad to the point that you couldn't turn the machine on.....has anyone else!?! This sucks so bad, cause there was some stuff I didn't have backed up, not to mention this was the drive that had windows on it. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

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