I'm having a little bit of trouble with my hard drives. Whenever the IDE cable is connected to the motherboard and to the hdd or cd rom, they get no power. But when the ide cable is not connected to the mobo, they get power… I cant figure out just why this is happening because just a few minutes before all I did was rebooted the comp from the start menu..
More information please.
How are you determining that the hard drive is receiving power or not, when IDE is connected or not?
Are there conditions in which the Hard Disk is functional?
Are there conditions in which you can fully boot into Windows?
(if so download and run the free version of Everest (from MajorGeeks) and print out a "Quick Report" of the Temperature and Voltage Sensor readouts)
Do you have more than one physical hard drive? Problem with one, both?
Any other power related problems?
Have you swapped out the IDE ribbon/cables?
Are you using 40wire or 80 wire IDE?
IDE cables need to be plugged in "directionally.
(longer segment with single connector goes into the MoBo, the end with two connectors goes into the Drives.
Are you connecting more than one drive device per IDE ribbon/cable?
Have you swapped out the Power Supply Unit or even just used a different unused power connector wire from the same PSU?
Is the power supply Plug fully seated into the Drive?
Does seating the IDE cable/ribbon physically disrupt the seating of the power supply plug?
Do you presently have more Hard Drive and Optical Drives than the machine originally came with.
How about any additional PCI Devices?
(especially of concern would be a higher end AGP or PCI-E Video Adapter, either of which can be quite "power hungry".)
(asking because you may be exceeding the power supply unit's output capacity)
Sorry it took a little while to respond but I've got it working by just replacing the IDE cable. Who knows why it gave out ? lol
However, a slightly different problem.
I've stuck a HDD in an inclosure and its connected to my laptop via USB. I'm trying to install windows XP on it and it tells me that it cannot access the drive because it doesnt have permission to do it. Er something like that. It wont install XP on it either way lol. Any ideas?
With most newer Mobos coming with CMOS that accommodates "legacy USB connections" it has actually become possible to install an operating system on an external enclosure HD.
But it ain't easy.
The idea also begs the question………. Why?
There was another thread a few weeks ago that dealt with this topic.
I think it might have been Shelf Life who responded to the posting Member.
You may find, as often, Google is your friend for investigating this topic.
best regards
