power supply and hard drive issues?

[homecomiingbeer]

Hello I have a P4 1.8ghz with 512 ram a cd burner,a dvd-rom.Next is 2 120 gig hard drives western digital.
Sound blaster audigy 2 and well a regular nvidia video card(needs upgrade).
My question is when I have 1 hard drive connected I get no high pitch sounds from the hard drive or whatever else.
As soon as I plug up the other hard drive the high pitch noises start.
I'm figuring the power supply is not strong enough.
I have a 300 watt power supply.
Do I need to change this and could it be the problem?

Thks

[kranich]

Is that sound coming from the new drive? Open the case and find out. If so- it could be about to go FUBAR. If the bearings are going south they whine and produce a high pitched sound.

[John Prophet]

try EACH hard drive by itself.

some power supplies do whine when they boot....I have a cheap used one that does it....I would never use it in a build though.

I think you need more than 300w for that setup.

[homecomiingbeer]

Hi guys, They are both new hard drives and it doesn't matter which one it is , the sound happens when I have 2 plugged in on same cable.
When only one is plugged it is quiet and silent

Where should I go with this?
THks

[kranich]

OK try putting one on one IDE and the other on the other. Just to eliminate that. But your power is starting to look suspicious.

[homecomiingbeer]

I think you're right , the power supply is looking kinda suspicious.

I'll try both drives on different cables see what happens.

Thks

How can I keep them on separate cables and also keep my burner and dvd-rom going?//

[Bovon]

How can I keep them on separate cables and also keep my burner and dvd-rom going?//

You don't...this is a test...just a test to eliminate the possibles. Not everything is nailed down...you sometimes must eliminate other things before the obvious problem will show up.

[homecomiingbeer]

guys it was the power supply any machine with 2 120's or any 2 hard drives deserves more than 400 watts.

I put in a 420 watt power supply and the 2 hard drives are on the same channel and they purr like kittens now.


Thks