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cant get pc to start

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by nicksgang

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i tryied to add a new hard drive but, it now doesnt reconise the old drive or new one.i have also lost all power to the dvd drive and cdrom drive, i have tried to refigure the cmos and bios but no change. i cmos i cant find the hdd drives at all.i have replaced the power pack and ide cables what can i do now?

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by oh smeg

It should have been asked as a question. That way you would get notified every time someone answerers your question and there are different people who browse the Questions Forum who may be better equipped to help you as apposed to those who participate in the Discussion Forums.

Now for starters unplug the HDD that you added here and see if it works now or at the very least that the BIOS Correctly recognizes the fitted HDD.

If it does you have not done any damage and have just failed to correctly jumper the HDD that you added so you are getting a Conflict on the IDE Chanel which is preventing the Hardware correctly identifying the fitted HDD's.

Between the IDE Data Plug and the Power Plug on the HDD there are 6 pins with a Plastic Covered Jumper of 2 of these Pins. You need to move this jumper on at the very least the HDD that you added to either Slave or CS Cable Select. For the correct way to achieve this look at the sticker on the HDD there is a diagram on that which tells you how to alter the Drive Setting from Master to either Slave or CS. Some HDD have the option to set the HDD to Master with no Slave so if that is the case here you will need to reset the original Drive to either Master or CS and remove the additional Jumper which tells the hardware that there is no Slave present. This again is on the Sticker on the drive which is generally a large white sticker with black printing on the Top of the HDD with all of it's details on it.

As for the Optical Drives make sure that you have plugged them both into the Power Supply via the Power Plugs that come on leads out of the PS Box. If there is a Splitter in use to the Optical Drives make sure that it is both plugged in at both ends and that none of the wires have pulled out of any of the connectors. Sometimes the Pins in these connectors get compressed or spread out preventing a solid Contact being made. When this happens you need to unplug the Mains and spread the Male Pins in these Plugs and Compress the Female Pins so that you get a good contact occurring.

Col

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