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On a computer if the hard drive is bad would the power button not lite up?
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∙ 13y ago
The power button would still light up if the hard drive is bad, but only your BIOS would boot up.
If the power button lights up this proves that you have +5 Volt rail from the PSU and that the switch circuitry on the motherboard is functioning.
A simple way of proving that the PSU isproviding 12 volts is to insert a CD or dvd. The Motor on the CD/DVD drive is 12 volt. The drive is also an intelligent device (It has its own onboard CPU) so even if the computer wont start the bios or OS then this should still function.
So assuming the voltage is there to power the computer board sucessfully, Does the display start up , can you see the BIO information on the screen? Are any faults shown?
No display may indicate a fault on the videocard, or the motherboard or any other component plugged into the PCI slots. A technician would strip the system down to its minimum components to try to substitution check the parts of the computer.
If the system shows a BIOS start up and no other error faults are indicated does the operating system boot? If it fails to boot it could mean a number of things 'one' of which could be a faulty hard drive. It could be a corrupted operating system boot sequence causing the system to fail. On Vista and Windows 7 a USB stick configured as a SmartDrive will prevent the system from starting if the system crashed prior to the reboot. Unplug it try the boot again.
- If you suspect the hard drive does it make any sound while its booting? Constant clicking is generally the head trying to realign itself and ma indicate a broken drive.
- How old is the drive? Anything approaching a good vintage (4 years+) is more prone to failiure.
- Is it in a laptop which is more likely to be subject to operational stress?
- Can you get into the OS and run a CHKDSK /F from the run prompt to check for logical faults or physical errors?
- Have you tried it in another computer?
Just a few ideas to try before throwing that drive away.
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