New PSU issues .......maybe

In advance thank you for the help. I love these forums.

(cliche') I friend called me last night while I was at work and his
world is falling apart his pc started to have issues. He started to
smell an electical odor and after sniffing through the house he thinks
it came from his pc. He felt the case and noticed it was really hot. (I
told him many many times he needed more cooling) He took the pc apart
and noticed the PSU fan was not blowing. He denies any issues with the
pc prior to this moment. he stated he turned off his game and shut down
the pc and then gave it a good cleaning and went and bought a new 500W
PSU. this machine is over 4 years old with some recent upgrades. from
memory without the pc in hand to look at the specs are below.

The issue is after the new PSU was installed the main IDE HDD works
fine but the SATA 300GB HDD when the PSU is plugged in the pc will start
for about 5 seconds and shut off. If you unplug the sata seagate hdd the
pc will boot and start just fine. The SATA HDD is just a storage drive.
I wanted to get some preliminary info prior to getting my hands on the
machine to troubleshoot some things. I promise once I get it taken apart
I will get some better specs. Again thank you all for some input.

(from the top of my head)

60Gb IDE HDD 7200rpm (unk make)
AMD 64bit 754
Chaintech MK8T890
2GB of ram
Seagate baracuda 300gb SATA
Nvidia 256MB PCIe card

Taver <Taver.34o7ka RemoveThis @no.email.invalid> wrote in
news:Taver.34o7ka@no.email.invalid:

> In advance thank you for the help. I love these forums.
>
> (cliche') I friend called me last night while I was at work and his
> world is falling apart his pc started to have issues. He started to
> smell an electical odor and after sniffing through the house he thinks
> it came from his pc. He felt the case and noticed it was really hot.
> (I told him many many times he needed more cooling) He took the pc
> apart and noticed the PSU fan was not blowing. He denies any issues
> with the pc prior to this moment. he stated he turned off his game and
> shut down the pc and then gave it a good cleaning and went and bought
> a new 500W PSU. this machine is over 4 years old with some recent
> upgrades. from memory without the pc in hand to look at the specs are
> below.
>
> The issue is after the new PSU was installed the main IDE HDD works
> fine but the SATA 300GB HDD when the PSU is plugged in the pc will
> start for about 5 seconds and shut off. If you unplug the sata seagate
> hdd the pc will boot and start just fine. The SATA HDD is just a
> storage drive. I wanted to get some preliminary info prior to getting
> my hands on the machine to troubleshoot some things. I promise once I
> get it taken apart I will get some better specs. Again thank you all
> for some input.
>
> (from the top of my head)
>
> 60Gb IDE HDD 7200rpm (unk make)
> AMD 64bit 754
> Chaintech MK8T890
> 2GB of ram
> Seagate baracuda 300gb SATA
> Nvidia 256MB PCIe card

When you say "unplugged" I assume you mean power to the SATA HD? If so
then you must determine if the HD or the new PSU is causing the problem.
Try another SATA HD or try another PSU and or get a PSU tester. I use
this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16899705003

A tester does not guarantee that the PSU is good but it's better than
guessing.

How to identify PC components by the FCC ID number:
http://www.driverzone.com/guides/find/fcc/fcc_p1.html

FCC ID search form:
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm

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