This always happens to me when I have the ide cable reversed. I.e. Pin 1 is on pin 40. Check that.<br><br>On Dec 3, 2007 12:23 PM, Todd Walton <<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Summary<br>I have a newly built computer that won't boot. I have everything<br>installed. It has one hard drive and one DVD drive. I hook up power
<br>to everything and press the power button and...<br><br>Good<br>It seems as if the mobo powers up. The CPU fan spins and the PCI<br>Express video card lights up and its fan spins. The front LED lights<br>up red.<br><br>
Bad<br>The front LED being red probably means bad. The hard drive and DVD<br>drive don't power up at all. I can't eject the DVD drive and none of<br>it lights up. The hard drive isn't vibrating or making noise. The
<br>computer doesn't even get to BIOS. At least it doesn't show on the<br>monitor.<br><br>Troubleshooting<br>I've used different power connectors and even swapped out the power<br>supply to no avail. It does exactly the same thing. So it can't be
<br>the power supply.<br><br>I've disconnected and reconnected all cabling to the motherboard and the drives.<br><br>Funky Thing<br>When I disconnect the IDE cable to the optical drive, but leave power<br>plugged in, it'll turn on. I can eject it and it winks its LED at me.
<br> So they must build drives to take input from the motherboard on<br>whether it's okay to power up or not.<br><br>Question<br>Any ideas what could be happening?<br><br>Signature<br>-todd<br>_______________________________________________
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