 Ant the smoke came forth, all I did was turn on my pc |
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| TimT |
 Oct 13 2007, 07:12 PM
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retired  Group: Members Posts: 4,033 Joined: 18-February 03 From: Wantagh, NY Member No.: 313  |
I powered up my desktop today, and all that happened was an acrid cloud of smoke was discharged from the power supply...
Im in the middle of doing some sheetrock and insulation work on mi casa so this release of magic smoke couldnt happen at a worse time..Anyway off to to obtain a new power supply.. The pc boots till it tells me disk boot failure or something..... anyway Im going to build a pc tomorrow and see if I can salvage anything off the old hard drive.... BTW this message brought you via Panasonic Toughbook |
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| angerosa |
Oct 17 2007, 09:24 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 334 Joined: 21-August 07 From: Reston, VA Member No.: 8,023 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
I think you are more than half way there. Past the hard part.
Have you gotten your PC to boot with your new 160GB drive in there alone? Try different jumper settings. Try switching the plugs on the ribbon cable between the two drives. See if you can verify that the jumper configurations are indeed the same between the two western digiatl drives meaning the configuration for master on your new drive doesn't equate to cable select on your old drive. You're assuming they're both the same. I doubt a manufacturer would change but I don't know for sure. Even if your original drive is bad, your machine should still boot up with the good new drive. If it has the OS installed and it can read the drive, it shouldn't not boot because there is some unnecesary hardware component that is failing. |
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| rjames |
Oct 17 2007, 01:39 PM
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I'm made of metal Group: Members Posts: 3,940 Joined: 24-July 05 From: Shoreline, WA Member No.: 4,467 Region Association: Pacific Northwest 
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After hooking up both drives, go into your BIOS and make sure that the problem drive is being recognized correctly.
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| TimT |
Oct 17 2007, 04:39 PM
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retired Group: Members Posts: 4,033 Joined: 18-February 03 From: Wantagh, NY Member No.: 313 |
I think its time to give the old drive the float test
bios recognizes both drives, yet the old drive doesnt spin up when power is turned on..... it did spin the other day.. |
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| dinomium |
Oct 18 2007, 11:55 AM
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Git on a chair son, all the good stuff is goin over yer head! Group: Benefactors Posts: 2,777 Joined: 2-January 03 From: Bremerton, WA Member No.: 74 Region Association: Pacific Northwest  |
try setting the boot order to Drive 0 (new) cdrom then Drive 1(old)
Outwest Sheetrock is the wallboard and Drywall is the entire operation of wall finishing. |
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