Hey, I'm hoping to find some help here, if you have any ideas let me know.
So I built my first PC at the end of last year, it's been running great, no problems. Then a month ago, it started shorting out, I would power up and it would turn off 2 seconds later. I saved up some money, and got a new mother board thinking that was the problem. Turns out it wasn't and it was the power supply that had failed (corsair 600w) I don't know how it failed, but I am assuming a power surge, even though I don't remember one happening, and I have a surge protector board. But hey, so I bout a new 700w power supply, and this morning plugged it in. PC turns on, starts booting up, then gives me a lovely Disc boot error message, please insert recovery disc, blah blah blah. I thought maybe my hard drive got fried, so I threw in a brand new one. And attempted to install windows to it, I booted into windows install disc, but can't install because it recognises no hard drive being connected, the same thing it is doing to my original hard drive. I've opened the pc up and it doesn't seem like the hard drives are spinning, so I changed the power and sata cable running from the hard drives, still nothing. I'm stuck, any ideas?
So I built my first PC at the end of last year, it's been running great, no problems. Then a month ago, it started shorting out, I would power up and it would turn off 2 seconds later. I saved up some money, and got a new mother board thinking that was the problem. Turns out it wasn't and it was the power supply that had failed (corsair 600w) I don't know how it failed, but I am assuming a power surge, even though I don't remember one happening, and I have a surge protector board. But hey, so I bout a new 700w power supply, and this morning plugged it in. PC turns on, starts booting up, then gives me a lovely Disc boot error message, please insert recovery disc, blah blah blah. I thought maybe my hard drive got fried, so I threw in a brand new one. And attempted to install windows to it, I booted into windows install disc, but can't install because it recognises no hard drive being connected, the same thing it is doing to my original hard drive. I've opened the pc up and it doesn't seem like the hard drives are spinning, so I changed the power and sata cable running from the hard drives, still nothing. I'm stuck, any ideas?