Hello! I got IDE WD 80 Gb about 6 years for c: drive (I got 2 drives). Lately (after 4 monthes of using with new hardware) my PC got to be frozen a lot of times, I got a lot errors by chkdsk, but all were fixed. WD Data Life Tools says the disk is OK. Additionally, to chkdsk errors (that has been fixed and after that I got more and fixed them too) I got switch off and immediately switch on (not restart), but switching. Is it bounded with hard disk prroblem, or may be additionally I have PSU problem? Please help!! Seems that the PC works without to be frozen, only switching out and on (sometimes) Thanks. My PC: Motherboard GA-P35-DS3 , Radeon HD 2600XT Super ,Processor E6550 , Kingston DDR2 1 Gb 800MHz CL5 Hard Disks both IDE: WD60 JB, Seagate ST36081 (160 Mb) PSU Sweex 350 WATT GOLD Optiarc DVD RW AD-7170S (SATA) Thanks for help
I'm with Donkey here. I don't quite follow What do you mean by.... Is it switching itself on as soon as you turn it off........
The PC switches off by itself and soon after 1-2 sec it switches on by itself. Is it disk or PSU problem
neither, i think the BIOS is set to automatically power on after a power failure, i think the BIOS is mistaking the power being turned off as a power failure or simply reset the BIOS & see if their is a BIOS update available BTW: resetting the BIOS will also remove any overclocking you've done
Thanks I did "Load BIOS optimized default". I never had overclocking. Let's see a couple days. I had already a restart, so I loaded BIOS Fault save defaults. Let's see again. Additionally downloaded Gigabyte last BIOS (and others), installed and set "Load BIOS optimized default" as recommended by Gigabyte.
After I downloaded last drivers for motherboard and video card I still got PC restart, and that returns us to hardware problem. Any opinions? chkdsk is OK, in event viewer nothing
