First post, by kanecvr
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- Oldbie
Hi guys.
I've been wrestling with this problem for some time now - it seems some no-name cheap PSUs as well as some brand(ish) name non 80+ PSUs have problems powering up most PATA hard drives. The machines themselves run fine, and I ran an experiment, powering the HDD via an old AT PSU - everything worked flawlesly... here's the kicker - back in the day (2000-2005) all everyone used were these no name chinese pieces of crap, and the HDD's ran OK - now when I try to build even a PIII + GF2 MX + 40GB PATA HDD, the HDD will stop spinning when booting or spinup and spin down right after post...
anyone else encounter this issue?