Vanessa,

The reason Windows only shows (recognizes) a capacity of 128 GB for the 
Seagate drive is explained at the site below. The link is a Western Digital 
site but the information is generic in nature and addresses Windows XP and 
drive capacity. You did not indicate other problems with the drive so it's 
probably okay. Updating the XP install (Service Pack 2) should solve the 
problem.

The full capacity of EIDE drives larger than 137GB (128GB binary) is not 
recognized in Windows 2000/XP:
http://tinyurl.com/37pdyv

Sven Swanson, Sr.
The NoSpin Group, Inc.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vanessa Henderson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Computer Shuts Down Nothing on Monitor


Thank you for all those suggestions.  But I did unplug and replug all
cables, cleaned and reseated the ram, video card, NIC card and modem.
Tried a different monitor, but there were no messages of any type on
that monitor either.  It was still completely black.  Finally I
consulted a friendly neighborhood tech at Fry's Electronics who
advised me to purchase a new motherboard.  Reluctantly I did, and now
all is fine.  What could have caused such a young motherboard to bit
the dust?  Now for some reason my recently exchanged 200GB hard drive
is only reading 128GB???  What's next?!  I have packed it back into
the box I received it in from Seagate only two weeks ago for yet
another exchange. For now, I will take some time to get to know my
New Intel iMAC while I work on getting that PC working smoothly again.

Regards,
Vanessa

On Jan 29, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Venkat Viswanathan wrote:

> Original post (clipped)
>
> <<<I've been using Win XP with AMD Sempron 2800+ processor, 512 MB
> RAM & =
> 200 GB
> harddrive sucessfully for the last year. Now all of a sudden when
> trying =
> to
> power up, nothing appears on monitor and computer shuts down after
> only 1=
> 5
> seconds>>>>
>
> Hi,
>
> there could be many,many reasons BUT on the other hand being only a
> year =
> old system we can possibly narrow it down.
>
> (1) check the cable connections between your hard drive and
> motherboard.
>
> (2)check/reseat the RAM sticks
>
> (3) when you unplugged the monitor, did you get a msg on the screen
> to th=
> e effect .."cable unplugged..."??
>
> (4) do you know whether you have "on board video" or a "seperate
> video ca=
> rd"??
>
> NOTE: all the above suggestions assume you are comfortable working
> inside=
>  the system (you have changed the power supply...). IF NOT pl post
> back f=
> or further assistance.
>
> good luck---Venkat 

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