jasperwilcox
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Let me preface this as many others do I'm sure with the obligatory "I don't know a ton about computers." I know more than the average grandma or whatever, but I'm certainly not an expert.
Anyway, I have an alienware PC someone else gave me, and it'd been running fine, and then a few days ago I went to turn it on, and the fans went on and the lights went on and everything looked normal, except it didn't seem like the harddrive was starting at all. My monitor didn't detect the harddrive starting either (it just sat there with the blinking LED like it does when the computer's off, it normally becomes a solid light when you turn the computer on, then images begin to display).
From what I can tell, the rest of the machine is fine, and I took the harddrive out of its slot in the tower and it feels like it's "working" as far as it's mechanically rotating or whatever, and I fiddled with the connections between it and the motherboard and such, but no luck. Does it sound like some internal problem with the harddrive? Maybe this is a textbook "busted harddrive" and I just don't realize it.
Thanks guys!
Anyway, I have an alienware PC someone else gave me, and it'd been running fine, and then a few days ago I went to turn it on, and the fans went on and the lights went on and everything looked normal, except it didn't seem like the harddrive was starting at all. My monitor didn't detect the harddrive starting either (it just sat there with the blinking LED like it does when the computer's off, it normally becomes a solid light when you turn the computer on, then images begin to display).
From what I can tell, the rest of the machine is fine, and I took the harddrive out of its slot in the tower and it feels like it's "working" as far as it's mechanically rotating or whatever, and I fiddled with the connections between it and the motherboard and such, but no luck. Does it sound like some internal problem with the harddrive? Maybe this is a textbook "busted harddrive" and I just don't realize it.
Thanks guys!