Pang needs your help~

Well, switching hard drives into totally different computers can be like that. You really can't swap around your boot drive like that. >_>
There is also the issue of whether the jumpers are set properly. If you have two hard drives hooked up, with each of them having jumpers set as "master drive," then there may be issues.
Are they trying to run Pang's drive as the only drive in his brother's computer, or as a secondary(or slave) so that he can just access the data?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

So I take it he unplugged his brother's drive completely?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well, looking at how your describe the reaction (boot in safe mode, etc), things seem to be fine on the hard drive's side.

Pang just needs a new power supply. And I would advise almost anything BUT that Sparkle shit. Do you know what motherboard he has?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Because when the hard drive was exchanged with another, supposedly known working hard drive, they reproduced the problem that they initially had.

Considering that the reaction that Pang's original hard drive had in his brother's system is typical of an attempted swap of that nature, it does not seem reasonable to suspect that it is the hard drive's fault.

However, it might be possible that its the motherboard which is faulty.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Just to be extra clear then: when you (Sassafrass) said that the power plugs were "connected to the DVD drive and such," did this mean that the exact same power plug used to connect to the hard drive was connected to the DVD drive, and it worked just fine? Or were you just referring to the power plugs that were originally connected to the DVD drives?

If the former, then yeah, Blah's assessment sounds valid.
If the latter, then try doing the scenario as mentioned, and see what happens.

I was speaking idiomatically.

So yeah, at this point, the only way to know for sure is to take out the old power supply, and plug in a known working one into Pang's original system.

If the same problem occurs, then we know its the motherboard.

If the system boots up just fine, then we know its the power supply.

=)

As for what brand of power supply to get, if it is that issue, then I wouldn't really know what to advise you to get. =\ I've heard lots of good things about Antec though. I would advise taking into consideration other people's opinions on this matter though.

If its the motherboard, see if it has some warranty shit on it,and if you can take advantage of it. If not, then get another of the same board. Though Foxconn is pretty cheap, I'm pretty sure they are capable of reasonably good hardware. Hell, they make many parts for Apple after all.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Cam

But I kinda doubt his PSU is the issue here.

Not to be confrontational or anything, but could you explain why you think this? =0

FELIPE NO

Thank goodness. ^_^
I was really worried, for the reasons that Blah pointed out, that it still might have been the mobo.
Happy to oblige.

How ya doing, buddy?