HAY GUYS

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Feb 24, 2007, 11:52 AM

Have you tried a different channel for the hard drive? Switched cables?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Feb 24, 2007, 12:12 PM

Just to be certain, you should also check if that hard drive works in another computer.

You're saying that the power plugs work when they're connected to the DVD drive and such, but it fails only with the hard drive?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Feb 24, 2007, 12:37 PM

Hm. If that drive is confirmed to be working, then I guess the serial cable or serial port / motherboard would be suspect. (It's serial ATA right? Not IDE?)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Feb 24, 2007, 01:11 PM

Why would he need a new power supply if it's working fine?

How ya doing, buddy?

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Feb 24, 2007, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Quote:

You're saying that the power plugs work when they're connected to the DVD drive and such, but it fails only with the hard drive?

Pang confirms that this is the case.

Yeah, it's looking more like the motherboard or the IDE cable now.

I was speaking idiomatically.

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Feb 24, 2007, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Rat, regarding the cables: Pang says: "I did do what he is asking me - I did." (He's on the phone, so.) "I took both the power plug and the IDE cable out of the hard drive and attached them to the DVD drive, and vice versa." Verbatim. "This also resulted in the system refusing to power on."

Does this mean that, with the hard drive taken out, the DVD drive will work with either power connector or IDE cable? There's four different combinations possible here (power/IDE set A, power/IDE set B, power swapped, IDE swapped).

You need to determine if it's the power plug or the IDE cable that's causing the problem.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?