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September 2, 2009 at 11:25 AM
wolfbaiting

No power to CDROM when HDD plugged in

by wolfbaiting . Updated 16 years, 10 months ago

Hi guys,
If no HDD is plugged in both CDROMs get power to them and spin up, but if there is a HDD plugged in the CDROMs get nothing. I have tried it with just one of each but to no avail.

Booting from HDD, it says ‘Disk boot failure, insert system disk’ which obviously I can’t.

Everything in the BIOS is set properly, as are all the relevant jumpers.

Is there something obvious I’m missing or is it a power supply issue, bearing in mind they (2xHDD and 2xCDROM) were working before?

It’s a relatively old machine but it runs XP well enough, usually.

Cheers

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