IDE's
Started by
tankertons20
, Dec 27 2006 01:14 PM
#1
Posted 27 December 2006 - 01:14 PM
#2
Posted 27 December 2006 - 02:02 PM
Could be that you don't get 5 volt from your power supply unit. You do get 12 volt which run motors but not the lower voltage used by the electronics. Could also be that you have a problem with theb motherboard (corrupted BIOS, faulty IDE bus, faulty chipset etc).
Do you get any error message during startup? It is important to understand at what point exactly the computer fails.
Do you get any error message during startup? It is important to understand at what point exactly the computer fails.
#3
Posted 27 December 2006 - 02:25 PM
well we had it working a few days ago. we removed the hard drive to check another pc, it worked. so we put it back in the original tower and the power source is is working. when we connect the ide cables we get no power to either the hard drive or cd rom.
#4
Posted 27 December 2006 - 02:33 PM
try another ide cable if its the fine wire cable connector they can sometimes break.
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#5
Posted 27 December 2006 - 02:37 PM
well if that wire is broken will it cause no spinning in the hard drive, or no cd rom activity.
#6
Posted 27 December 2006 - 02:46 PM
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#7
Posted 27 December 2006 - 02:53 PM
well i will have to run out later to get new ide's , but thank you both for all your time.i appreciate all the insight you provide.
#8
Posted 27 December 2006 - 03:30 PM
You may not need new cables, something which doesn't seem to have occured to anyone is "what are your jumper settings?". On older machines the jumpers may need to be set to master and slave, on newer ones they may need to be cable select. BTW, don't put the CD on the same cable as the HDD, it will greatly slow down operation.
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