after 1 wk, boot from new Seagate fails instantly

[masscommuter]

Newly put-together AMD box, with Seagate SATA 7200 Barracuda 320gb

After 1 week, power-on lasts exactly 1/.2 second
- cpu fan starts up, power LED lights up, HDD LED intermittently lights up
- 1/2 sec. later: all stop.
but ONLY when booting from HDD AFTER shutdown with HDD connected.

I've tried a few remedies - Power Supply, fail-safe BIOS, . .
Only one works:
- Disconnect HDD (power cable, sata cable)
- Boot from CD
- Shutdown
- Re-connect HDD, Reboot: it works, boots from HDD

I suspect that Hibernate or Suspend caused something to "go bad"
but is it
a) in shutdown process?
b) mobo (new Gigabyte AM2 socket mobo) ?
c) something in the Seagate?
In advance, thanks for any ideas.

[drc]

7200.11?

[poehere]

I have had this problem a lot here. This is what I have found out to correct the problem

1 - the card is not installed correctly in tour and there seems to be a short in tour, I have taken the card out of the tour and checked all posts to make sure they are all the same size, I first took out the card I found the person to tighten the screws too tight on the board and just installed the screws until they became thight

2 - Found that in some of the board I had to repair this was caused by the memory was faulty. I replaced the memory

3 - I had another one that the video card caused this problem the person did not seat it correctly in the slot

4 - Another one was the MB it's self. There seemed to be a short in the board which caused this problem.

5 - Another one the person who installed the fan for the processor did not hook the fan up correctly and the processor was heating up and causing the machine to shut down

Try to take out the MB and check to see if you have the same problem if you hook it up outside your tour. If the board will work outside the tour then try and reinstall the board and check all connections to the board to see if you are getting a good connection. I had a person install the fan power supply cable on the wrong lead which also caused this problem. It worked for some time then all of a sudden would not work any longer

[masscommuter]

Thanks for the 2 replies - -
a) re 72090.11:
It's 7200.10, Seagate SATA 320 gb - - (got it over a year ago, finally used it to build this system)

b) re "shorts" ( and "la tour" ce qui veut dire "Tower" case system )
Oui - - the problem of SHORTs is something I tried to find, without success.

AND if a Short Circuit / stray wire / un-seated card were the problem,
that would not explain the CONSISTENT behavior when IT WORKS:
Boot works FINE from HDD Seagate
AFTER first:
a) Disconnect power + SATA cables from Seagate HDD
b) Boot from CD
c) Shutdown from that session - i.e., while no HDD is in use

The problem ONLY occurs following
a) shutdown while using HDD

And, for the failed startup: the HDD LED light does blink, kind of long-short-short
before all goes dark
So, there's some kind of error in early phase read of HDD.

I can only guess that some instructions to HDD ( or mobo? ) during shutdown of the HDD filesystem
manage to "screw up" something
which remains at re-boot.
But, what could remain? Nothing, unless it's mechanical. Or is there some permanent memory on HDD or mobo (Gigabyte AM2 socket)?
Power is off, I wait, . . . twice it "cooled down" for hours, not seconds.

Thanks again for replies,
Chris

[poehere]

Try to install another drive in this, format, and install OS. Test this to see if you have same problem. If there is not problem then problem is in your hard drive. If you say is new drive you should take it back for warrenty. If drive is old change out and forget all about this and go on

You can try to take out battery of MB to erase memory problems in BIOS, reconfigure your BIOS after a new drive is installed, start computer with CD OS and install. Watch what it does after the drive is formated and it reboots to install the reset of the OS. If it will not reboot and install the rest of the OS you are having a problem with the memory or the power supply on the tower. What are you using for power supply 400 or 500. Maybe you should try one of the newer power supply units for this tower. Take out the factory one and go buy one that has a lot more power for handling this type of board.

If you know someone who has special tool you can have him use them to wipe this drive, format and zero fill the drive and start over again. That is another option