[BSB]

Hello i just built a new computer and turned it on and it started up with the fans shaking then after a couple of tries the fans came on stable on the cpu fan, case fan, chipset fan, and video card, but nothing else turns on, the hard drive is inactive, nothing coming form the dvd drive, I don't think the cpu is warmingg up either, because I took off the fan and it is still cold. Whats going on?

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Ok I guess I had a few cables mixed up, but now even though the fans in the computer come on the hard drive and the DVD driove won't.

[BSB]

Ok I guess I had a few cables mixed up, but now even though the fans in the computer come on the hard drive and the DVD driove won't.

[dsenette]

what did you mean by the fans "shaking?

[BSB]

that they just jittered, and would no spin, but now I have another question my DVD rom turns on when I take out the IDE cable, but when I put the IDE cable back in nothing happens, can't tell if the hard drive is turning on.

Edited by BSB, 23 August 2005 - 08:34 AM.

[dsenette]

how do you have your jumpers set on all the ide drives? is your hd and cd rom on the same cable?

[BSB]

The jumpers are set to master on the HD, and slave on the DVD drive, and yes they share the same cable.

[BSB]

Could it be a bad cable?

[dsenette]

try putting them on seperate cables....

[BSB]

tried new cables and nothing happend, is this the sign of a bad motherboard?

[warriorscot]

Did you put them on Seperate cables eg HDD on IDE1 and DVD on IDE 2. There will be a noticable noise and the HD activity light will turn on if the drive is on.