did you take all necessary precautions when opening your PC, like touching metal etc.

( i think you might have fried something ) but im not 100% sure so please wait for my opinion to be backed.

no, cause is all in one lense from what ive seen inside.

You learn from what you do. Try it, any way screw the drive lol. Just open it,jsut make sure you touch something metal before hand. Also not many PC's come with driver CD's anymore. I purchased two...

It wouldnt be the processor, either the graphics card or the mobo, but im unsure on the mobo, cause most monitors did not work with my old video card.

Un pulg bpth devices, boot up. So they are not there and delete all the hardware set ups for the, from add remove hardware.
Then shut down plugem back in and your good to go the problem should no...

ok you win (=, my bad.

wrong key, my bad. Yes it is delete.
note* i didnt say it had anything to do with any operating system.

After 2000 billi gates made it so the computer will bood from the harddrive first. Your going to have to edit your bios, to allow your computer to boot CDROM1 on boot. What you do is start up the...

ya thats true, the graphics crd could be oev er heating but im certain on the ps. If the ps does not sove your problem look fo the fani, and twin intake.

good luck calling IBM now, lol. They long gone.

I would have though maybe a loose cable. I guess not maybe theres some briken/missing/currupted pins in the conector's on the HD, but other then that I have absolutly no clue.Sorry )=

You know what to do, how long have you had it? And is the warrenty still valid? If so have them replace it.

Well it could be a virii issue, also a boot sector virus. Other then it would have to be a faulty Harddrive, or maybe a currupt file in XP, i would recommend a better OS. lol. Hardcore 98!....

what was the good cause?

A drive can be any letter from A-Z, but A is taken it is default on floppy drive's, mainly because floppy drives were one of the first creations to PC's after Mem sticks. Beside the point, you just...

Now with 6 fan's i really dont think its a heat issue, so I would go with power supply problems.

no, i wouldn't say that, my guess is you dont clean it. Do you use compressed air to clean it out once in a while?. In only a year nothing should go wrong with a pc that sits there. If you openit up...

no, its got to be faulty power, other then that it cant be a bios error, if so then the computer would not load up at all. Tigerdirect.com, newegg.com, amazon.com choose from your taste.