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The power supply did not fail while it was shut off. It probably went
south when you turned the machine on. If that was the case, there may
have been a voltage spike that damaged some components. Can you plug
the hard drive into the secondary IDE controller?

DeSoto Driver wrote:
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> My powersuply 250w died suddenly replaced it with a 300w, system now works
> but is super slow, ran scan disk on it & it took over 10 hours & it found
> no errors,went to defrag & it wont let me, it says there are errors on the
> disk & to run scan disk. System is a P2 500 amd cpu running Win Me w/256 mb
> memory. Hope someone has some ideas as to what happened. The PS was dead
> when I tried to turn it on it didnt die while it was running. TIA