PC has died

[KillerHERTZ]

Last night I could hear some whiring and a kind of beep/squeaking coming from my Harddrive, the HD access light was flashing at the same time.

Then the PC froze and I have been unable to sucessfully boot it up again, I can get it onto the XP loading screen, then it restarts with 'Select boot mode' eg Safe mode etc.

When I first bought this PC of someone the old HD I was given did the above, and I ditched it thinking it was a result of it being an old HD.

As this has happened again to a newish HD (Seagate Barracuda 160gb) im thinking its the PSU?

Could this cause power surges etc?


Ta

 

[Sp!ke]

Yep, cheap PSU's can cause havoc with hardware.

I'd also like to point out that it seems HDD's dont seem to last that long nowadays.... A year or so for a laptop drive and two to three for %.25" drives seem to be the norm.

Make sure you do your backups is all I can say.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

It seems like a good PSU though, if I replace it, I take it the HD would still be ok? as it attemps to load up windows ok?