james01843

Thanks for all your help i will buy one of those. cheers.

Would that be the only way to solve the problem?

Hi thanks for your replys, i will give you as much info as i know about the hard drive and computer as i can to see if this will help. The mother board is an asrock k8upgrade vm800. The hard drive is 2.5. Below is the motherboard spec from the manual. Platform: Micro ATX Form Factor: 9.0-in x 9.6-in, 22.9 cm x 24.4 cm CPU: 754-Pin Socket Supporting advanced 64-bit AMD AthlonTM 64 and 32-bit Sempron Processor Supports AMD’s Cool ‘n’ QuietTM Technology (see CAUTION 1) Chipsets: North Bridge: VIA K8M800 Chipset FSB @ 800 MHz / 1.6 GT/s South Bridge: VIA VT8237R Chipset Supports USB 2.0, ATA 133, SATA 1.5Gb/s Memory: 2 x DDR DIMM Slots: DDR1 and DDR2 Support PC3200 (DDR400) / PC2700 (DDR333) / PC2100 (DDR266), Max. 2GB IDE: IDE1: ATA 133 / Ultra DMA Mode 6 IDE2: ATA 133 / Ultra DMA Mode 6 Supports up to 4 IDE Devices Serial ATA: 2 x SATA Connectors Supports up to 2 SATA Devices at 1.5Gb/s Data Transfer Rate Floppy Port: Supports up to 2 Floppy Disk Drives Audio: 5.1 channels AC’97 Audio OnBoard VGA: Intergrated UniChrome PRO 3D/2D Graphics Controller , supports DirectX 8.1 LAN: Speed: 802.3u (10/100 Ethernet), Supports Wake-On-LAN Hardware Monitor: CPU Temperature Sensing Motherboard Temperature Sensing CPU Overheat Shutdown to Protect CPU Life (ASRock U-COP)(see CAUTION 2) CPU Fan Tachometer Chassis Fan Tachometer Voltage Monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, Vcore Future CPU Port: Supports CPU upgrade from AMD 754-Pin CPU to AMD 939-Pin CPU (see page 13 for details) PCI Slots: 2 x PCI Slots, PCI Specification 2.2 AGP slot: 1 x AGP Slot Supports 1.5V, 8X / 4X AGP Card (see CAUTION 3) AMR slot: 1 slot, supports ASRock MR card (Optional) USB 2.0: 8 USB 2.0 Ports: 6 Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports on the I/O Panel Plus 2 On-Board Headers Supporting 2 Extra USB 2.0 Ports Its defenatly nothing to do with the hard drive because i have changed it twice and it works on other computers. Any help would be great....thanks

I have just brought a western digital hard drive and when i plug it in to the usb port it makes the computer crash. Does anyone know what i need to do to get it to work, ive tryed everything i know with no luck. This includes testing all the usb ports, checking that it is usb 2.0 and deleting and reinstalling the drivers. The drive also works as i have tested it on two other computers. PLEASE HELP...thnx