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by jfrith2799

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I recently added a video card to my computer. I have not had a problem with the hard drive before but now when i boot it after it posts it says HDD boot failure. I check cable connections to hard drive, they were fine and i didnt change jumper settings on anything. I went to boot menu and it doesnt find either hard drive i have in my system. What could this possibly be?

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by robo_dev

1) Hard drive cable came loose at the motherboard or at the drive end of the cable.
Listen to hear if the drive is spinning up and initializing, if not, then the power connection is faulty.

2) Video card conflicting with hard-drive controller (never seen this happen).

3) Video card faulty or power supply marginal, such that extra current draw of the adapter deprived drives of enough power.

Does it start working again when you remove the video card?

by tintoman

Your new video card will drag as much power as it needs from the power supply unit and it is possible that there is insufficient power available for your hard drive to run.
Of course it is possible that you belted some motherboard components with static when you installed the video card, but then you did use an ant-static wrist band didn't you? of course you did

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