odd boot up

[strawberry]

symptoms :
1/ fairly new hard drive stopped appearing in my computer
2/ computer ran out of resouces randomly
3/ computer starting booting up fine, but not swtiching on montior
4/ computer checked motherboard and then dind't bother to detect ide drives
also as a side note the bloomin power button is barely working, its very
hard to get it to register

i took the battery from the motherboard and booted up with out it, and it
seemed to work just about ok.

what are the implications of this and whats wrong with the blooming thing!


cheers

 

[Shep©]

symptoms :
1/ fairly new hard drive stopped appearing in my computer
2/ computer ran out of resouces randomly
3/ computer starting booting up fine, but not swtiching on montior
4/ computer checked motherboard and then dind't bother to detect ide drives
also as a side note the bloomin power button is barely working, its very
hard to get it to register

i took the battery from the motherboard and booted up with out it, and it
seemed to work just about ok.

what are the implications of this and whats wrong with the blooming thing!


cheers

O/S?
Motherboard make/Version?
Hardware setup?
Software installed?
Yada Yada Yada.....

The less you tell,the less you get :/

 

[JAD]

symptoms :
1/ fairly new hard drive stopped appearing in my computer
2/ computer ran out of resouces randomly
3/ computer starting booting up fine, but not swtiching on montior
4/ computer checked motherboard and then dind't bother to detect ide drives
also as a side note the bloomin power button is barely working, its very
hard to get it to register

i took the battery from the motherboard and booted up with out it, and it
seemed to work just about ok.

what are the implications of this and whats wrong with the blooming thing!


cheers

1st guess PSU ....