Hi
Yesterday i tryed to install a hard drive. I got it installed as a secondary master, With my other hdd as primary master and a cdrw and dvdr writer as slaves. I used a y spliter power cable to give me and extra power cable. The computer booted up so i went to pation the drive in windows xp went throught the process clicked finish expecting the hdd to be partioned, when i clicked finish the monitor went off, and my pc hasnt booted up since then. I think it did this because i used the power spliiter to share power with my voodoo 5 graphics card so when the hdd needed power it took it away from the graphics card.
Now when i start my pc up the cdrom and dvdr lights blink and a red light on the pc tower and goes off after about 10 seconds but no green 1, and the monitor doesnt switch on it light stays orange and a blank screen.

What have i done to my pc lol

Sounds like a blown PSU.
What wattage is the one fitted??

You would need at least 300W to sustain those components.

I had a similar problem once, all the LEDS on the front remained static ON, all the fans worked but nothing else.

Can you hear the system Boot up even though you cant see anything (does the HDD spin up and flicker??)

If you put a floppy in the drive does it access it during boot??

dont know the wattage.
i can hear the hdd spinning the cdrom leds stay on for about 2 secs each and the fans are working. But i dont hear the beep when it starts up

First thing I would do is regress everything to the position it was in when it last worked, i.e. without the second drive, and see if it works.

thats how it is now, i remeber last night it worked with the case on i am going to try that now also is the floppys ide cable red line on the left

1. test the power supply
2. check and make sure all the cables are plugged in
3. check the jumpers where the HDD LED, Power LED, Power Switch, Reset Switch, and Speaker are connected
4. check the little circular battery to see if it has any power. if it doesn't have any power replace it.


try these steps and see if they help.

The graphics card is the most power hungry piece of kit after your motherboard. Splitting the power to this is bound to cause you problems...

ive got the problem solvedish i took every ide device out and re-installed them, and i found out that ide cables have voltages, so i used the 300v cable for my hard disks and 150v for my cdroms. Also i got the primary and secondary ide channels mixed up. I currently get windows to boot up 1 in 10 tryes without this error, I am am backing up my mp3s 22.8 gb then its reformat hdd and my computer should work.

The blue screen error on bootup

a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
Technical information

**** STOP 0x0000006f (0xc000003a, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)