AnGuRuSO
Well-Known Member
I have one of those mini computers, basically it's a normal computer in smaller than normal case. It was pretty cool for a little while but because all the components were so close together everything heated everything else up and I got really really bad performance from really quite OK specs.
P4 3.0 GHz
128 MB Graphics Card
2x 512 MB RAM
It couldn't handle music and starcraft simultaneously running. So I put the hard disk, RAM and Graphics card into an older computer that had always been a bit suspicious. It hadn't worked and I thought it was a RAM fault so I thought it would be fine with the new RAM.
The new "arrangement" didn't work out and I got a strange smell from my computer, the smell you smell when you walk past welders.
So I gave up and put everything back into the old small cramp computer case. It couldn't boot from the hard disc.
Did I damage the hard drive?
So I decided to format the computer and reinstall windows. Everything ran very very slowly. It took about 15 minutes to get to the first step of setup, IE the blue screen with some windows welcome message. It formatted successfully, and then copied the windows set up files successsfully. When the computer restarted, it couldn't read from the hard drive, it wouldn't go through the setting up stage, the hard drive wasn't recognised as a bootable device. So now I go through a neverending loop of formatting then copying the windows file, then formatting then copying...
Any ideas? I really appreciate this. I've also tried using a number of different hard drives but not a brand new one.
I really appreciate any help, even if it may seem obvious. (I'm a noob).
Thanks, Angus
P4 3.0 GHz
128 MB Graphics Card
2x 512 MB RAM
It couldn't handle music and starcraft simultaneously running. So I put the hard disk, RAM and Graphics card into an older computer that had always been a bit suspicious. It hadn't worked and I thought it was a RAM fault so I thought it would be fine with the new RAM.
The new "arrangement" didn't work out and I got a strange smell from my computer, the smell you smell when you walk past welders.
So I gave up and put everything back into the old small cramp computer case. It couldn't boot from the hard disc.
Did I damage the hard drive?
So I decided to format the computer and reinstall windows. Everything ran very very slowly. It took about 15 minutes to get to the first step of setup, IE the blue screen with some windows welcome message. It formatted successfully, and then copied the windows set up files successsfully. When the computer restarted, it couldn't read from the hard drive, it wouldn't go through the setting up stage, the hard drive wasn't recognised as a bootable device. So now I go through a neverending loop of formatting then copying the windows file, then formatting then copying...
Any ideas? I really appreciate this. I've also tried using a number of different hard drives but not a brand new one.
I really appreciate any help, even if it may seem obvious. (I'm a noob).
Thanks, Angus