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Hard Drive Problem
Hey,
I'm currently building a new system for the first time, but have come across a problem. I have just installed 2 HDD, Floppy Drive and CD-Rom drive, but when I go to power on the system nothing happens, apart from the fans etc going on?? Is there something I have done wrong here. I have the 2 HDD connected together and into the primary motherboard connector, and the CD-rom drive into the secondary slot, and the floppy drive in its own slot. Any help would be great. Cheers |
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"squirrel" squirrel78nz wrote in message ... Hey, I'm currently building a new system for the first time, but have come across a problem. I have just installed 2 HDD, Floppy Drive and CD-Rom drive, but when I go to power on the system nothing happens, apart from the fans etc going on?? Is there something I have done wrong here. I have the 2 HDD connected together and into the primary motherboard connector, and the CD-rom drive into the secondary slot, and the floppy drive in its own slot. Any help would be great. Cheers Why do you think this is a hard drive problem? Disconnect power to all the disk drives. If the system still doesn't at least show the BIOS splash screens, then the problem is not in the hard drives, floppy drive or CD-Rom. A system needs clean power and a working CPU to POST. If your system is not posting, you need to double-check that your power connections are OK and your CPU is installed correctly. OH, and it's helpful to have a good video card properly installed (of course) so you can see what the system is doing, if anything. If you disconnect power to the hard drives and that changes the symptom, then it's time to double-check the master/slave jumper settings on all your disk drives. -Dave |
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"squirrel" wrote in message ... Hey, I'm currently building a new system for the first time, but have come across a problem. I have just installed 2 HDD, Floppy Drive and CD-Rom drive, but when I go to power on the system nothing happens, apart from the fans etc going on?? Is there something I have done wrong here. I have the 2 HDD connected together and into the primary motherboard connector, and the CD-rom drive into the secondary slot, and the floppy drive in its own slot. Any help would be great. Cheers Build and test a little at a time disconnect all wires going to your drives then see if the machine will post... troubleshoot from there...then add components one (or two) at a time keep testing as you go |
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"squirrel" wrote in message ... Hey, I'm currently building a new system for the first time, but have come across a problem. I have just installed 2 HDD, Floppy Drive and CD-Rom drive, but when I go to power on the system nothing happens, apart from the fans etc going on?? Is there something I have done wrong here. I have the 2 HDD connected together and into the primary motherboard connector, and the CD-rom drive into the secondary slot, and the floppy drive in its own slot. Any help would be great. Cheers This probably won't be the answer but it happened to me when I switched on the PC I had built for the 1st time. There are two separate power connectors on the motherboard - one for the motherboard itself and a smaller conenctor for the CPU. Are you sure you have conencted the CPU power cable? Harry |
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Yeah have double checked this .... both power connectors and connected to
the motherboard .... "HM" wrote in message ... "squirrel" wrote in message ... Hey, I'm currently building a new system for the first time, but have come across a problem. I have just installed 2 HDD, Floppy Drive and CD-Rom drive, but when I go to power on the system nothing happens, apart from the fans etc going on?? Is there something I have done wrong here. I have the 2 HDD connected together and into the primary motherboard connector, and the CD-rom drive into the secondary slot, and the floppy drive in its own slot. Any help would be great. Cheers This probably won't be the answer but it happened to me when I switched on the PC I had built for the 1st time. There are two separate power connectors on the motherboard - one for the motherboard itself and a smaller conenctor for the CPU. Are you sure you have conencted the CPU power cable? Harry |
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"squirrel" wrote in message ... Yeah have double checked this .... both power connectors and connected to the motherboard .... "HM" wrote in message ... "squirrel" wrote in message ... Hey, I'm currently building a new system for the first time, but have come across a problem. I have just installed 2 HDD, Floppy Drive and CD-Rom drive, but when I go to power on the system nothing happens, apart from the fans etc going on?? Is there something I have done wrong here. I have the 2 HDD connected together and into the primary motherboard connector, and the CD-rom drive into the secondary slot, and the floppy drive in its own slot. Any help would be great. Cheers This probably won't be the answer but it happened to me when I switched on the PC I had built for the 1st time. There are two separate power connectors on the motherboard - one for the motherboard itself and a smaller conenctor for the CPU. Are you sure you have conencted the CPU power cable? Harry In many mobos, the cpu-fan connects to a connector on the mobo which reads just that--"cpu fan" or "fan cpu". hth, s BTW, check your hard drive jumpers for correct slave/master connections. And if 1 of the hd's is a WD, reverse the slave/master arrangement, with the appropriate jumpers for this new arrangement. |
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squirrel wrote:
Hey, I'm currently building a new system for the first time, but have come across a problem. I have just installed 2 HDD, Floppy Drive and CD-Rom drive, but when I go to power on the system nothing happens, apart from the fans etc going on?? Is there something I have done wrong here. I have the 2 HDD connected together and into the primary motherboard connector, and the CD-rom drive into the secondary slot, and the floppy drive in its own slot. Any help would be great. Firstly, I assume you mean "when you power on the system and press on soft-power-on button, which is correctly connected to the motherboard". If you don't mean this then your problem probably lies there. Otherwise, go back to basics, try powering up with just the mobo, videocard, memory and processor and see if you get the BIOS screen. If this works, add the other components back one at a time until it fails and, bingo, you have your problem. Cheers |
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