Swapped the new PSU for the old 300watt one.
Without the hard drive plugged in the PC will power on fine. Try it with the HDD connected and theres no power to the CPU, GFX or fans.
Seems that whatever PSU its plugged into the HDD just wont allow any power to the PC. Obviously some sort of...
Mucked around with it a bit more
seems that no matter what I change, old GFX card, new one, no card, CD drives, no CD drives / peripherals. Nothing I change makes any difference now. If the HDD is plugged in it wont power on, if its unplugged, it will.
Looks like a good old-fashioned HDD...
I recently purchased a new GFX card. One of the top of range new Nvidia cards.
About 2 months ago I also replaced my PSU, which was becoming sluggish and was only an old 300watt. I replaced it with a brand new 600watt PSU, which I thought to be of high quality.
On my old system this ran...
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