Built a little over 5 years ago
AMD athlon 2.0Ghz
Asus m2n-sli
seagate 250gb 7200
earthwatts 500w green
antec nine hundred case
some cheap a$$ XFX card that was in stock at best buy when my Geforce 8500 kaputt
Problem: I can hear my hdd engage and disengage 10-12 times before passing post, probably a over 30 sec duration
I have had issues with this hdd before so I Replaced hdd with seagate 500gb 7200 best buy had in stock, new cables. Same issue. Unplugged cd drive and all my fans to take load off of PSU. Same problem. Replaced PSU with a new earthwatts 500w green cuz of $40 off sale. Same issue.
Do you guys have any suggestions on where to look next?
I'm guessing my mobo is bad... if so what would an upgrade recomendation be? I supposed I'd like to upgrade my mobo, processor and ram for around $200
I'm a low maintenance gamer, mainly just word processing and internet. Games I played are usually on low settings like Battlefield 1942, CoD World at War, and now World of Tanks/Warplanes...you know. WW2 stuff
I appreciate any advice!
Btw, it all started out of the blue about a month ago... Also, if I tried to put it on stand by mode the whole computer would restart. Was running XP pro, bumped up to Win 7 with new hard drive