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13th May 2012, 7:41 AM
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temperamental pc, wont start
hi, I've hit yet another problem
 . last night (and a few other times) the display goes crazy (not sure how to describe it) but can still change volume with my keyboard so i don't think its freezing. I've waited for the display to go back to normal but it doesn't so i have to turn it off but when i try to turn it back on it shuts off before it gets to the boot screen. also, when i turn the main switch (on the PSU) off then back on the computer starts itself which it usually doesn't do. I've tried unplugging the HDD's, usb headers, network card and re-seating the ram chip. it did work again but i have skipped any trouble shooting other times and it's worked also . this is confusing me (and probably all of you) but i'm hoping some one could shed some light on this problem of mine.PC specs in Sig.
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13th May 2012, 9:14 AM
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found out it WAS my second HDD
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16th May 2012, 8:56 AM
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i just looked at said HDD and saw it was set to master (ie. both HDD's were set to master) could this have caused my crashing/non-booting issues? keeping in mind that it the pc only crashed when i tryed to open a file from said HDD
EDIT: it was because it was set to master. now it works perfectly on slave.
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20th May 2012, 10:23 AM
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Would of been good to say in your OP, that you were using IDE HDDs!
You cannot run two HDDs on the one IDE Cable set as Master. One must be set to Master, the other to Slave, or both set to Cable Select. Happy you have sorted it out, Cheers 
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20th May 2012, 10:48 AM
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 sorry, forgot to put that they were on ide :laughs at his own stupidity:
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