Hello,
I recently bought a second internal hard disk (WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA) for my Acer desktop. I physically installed it inside the second HDD tray (making sure to ground myself and unplug the power cable). Then, I plugged the two required cables: the SATA ATA cable (from a free slot in the motherboard to the drive) and the SATA power cable. There were two SATA power connectors on a same wire in my computer case (the first one connected to the main HDD and the second one unused), so I used that second connector for the second HDD.
However, when I connected the power cable and pressed the power button, the computer lights turned on and the fans started working, but that's it. There wasn't the initial boot-up beep and the screen was blank. When, I disconnected the second HDD (to see what would happen), everything was back to normal.
Today, I tried again a few times. Out of the many tries, most of the time I got the same issue as the other day, but twice, the computer booted (there was the beep sound) and I got access to the BIOS which has detected the second drive. However, when reaching the Windows 7 loading screen, the computer froze and turned off.
From the way my computer is reacting, my gut feeling is that it's a power supply issue (not able to supply enough juice). However, I really don't understand why, because the power supply in the computer (bought in 2010) is rated at 500W/450W (peak/max) and this second HDD is the only extra component I've added other than a USB 3.0 PCI-E card. When using one of those online power usage calculators, I get about 350W...
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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In case it can help, here are the main components of my computer (Acer Aspire M5811):
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.20GHz 35 °C
Clarkdale 32nm Technology
RAM
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Acer H57M01 (CPU 1) 40 °C
Graphics
W2361 (1920x1080@60Hz)
1024MB GeForce GT 320 (Sapphire/PCPartner) 42 °C
Hard Drives
977GB Western Digital WDC WD10EADS-22M2B0 (RAID) 40 °C
Optical Drives
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
ATAPI DVD A DH16AASH
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio
I recently bought a second internal hard disk (WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA) for my Acer desktop. I physically installed it inside the second HDD tray (making sure to ground myself and unplug the power cable). Then, I plugged the two required cables: the SATA ATA cable (from a free slot in the motherboard to the drive) and the SATA power cable. There were two SATA power connectors on a same wire in my computer case (the first one connected to the main HDD and the second one unused), so I used that second connector for the second HDD.
However, when I connected the power cable and pressed the power button, the computer lights turned on and the fans started working, but that's it. There wasn't the initial boot-up beep and the screen was blank. When, I disconnected the second HDD (to see what would happen), everything was back to normal.
Today, I tried again a few times. Out of the many tries, most of the time I got the same issue as the other day, but twice, the computer booted (there was the beep sound) and I got access to the BIOS which has detected the second drive. However, when reaching the Windows 7 loading screen, the computer froze and turned off.
From the way my computer is reacting, my gut feeling is that it's a power supply issue (not able to supply enough juice). However, I really don't understand why, because the power supply in the computer (bought in 2010) is rated at 500W/450W (peak/max) and this second HDD is the only extra component I've added other than a USB 3.0 PCI-E card. When using one of those online power usage calculators, I get about 350W...
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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In case it can help, here are the main components of my computer (Acer Aspire M5811):
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.20GHz 35 °C
Clarkdale 32nm Technology
RAM
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Acer H57M01 (CPU 1) 40 °C
Graphics
W2361 (1920x1080@60Hz)
1024MB GeForce GT 320 (Sapphire/PCPartner) 42 °C
Hard Drives
977GB Western Digital WDC WD10EADS-22M2B0 (RAID) 40 °C
Optical Drives
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
ATAPI DVD A DH16AASH
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio