[OT] flaky power supply?

[Rick Bowers]

At 11/4/2009 11:10 AM, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>When I booted up my sister's computer, I heard an occasional click.
>It reminds me of circuit breaker tripping, but not as loud.  When it
>occurred while Windows is booting, the "busy" light that goes back and
>forth paused, then continued, but the computer didn't finish booting.
>When it occurred after boot up was complete, the computer would pause,
>then everything would go flaky (Windows Explorer would fail, for
>example.)
>
>The computer no longer successfully boots up as a config file is now 
>"missing".
>
>Is this most likely a power supply problem?  Could it be a hard drive
>or motherboard problem?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Andrew
>_______________________________________________

My money is on a failed hard drive. But it's possible the power 
supply is bad and is causing problems with the hard drive.

Do you have another computer you can try the hard drive in?

~Rick