The PC, got two older ribbon cable hdds in the pc, master and slave.

Problem, when you switch it on it powers for a few seconds then switches off!, still got a led lit on the motherboard, but can't re switch it back on untill you switch the wall socket back off and on.

after a bit of fault finding, discovered it will power on when the power cable is disconected from the master HDD, tried another from the psu still the same.

Now my solution at the mo, is,

power the pc with the master Hdd unpluged for say 30seconds, plug the power back into the master hdd, and hit the reset button, the pc then powers up all correctly?

and im using it to post this!


So is it dying? or is there a fix?

(ive backed up my pictures and ie favorites to the slave )