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    Problem Booting

    To All, Thanks for your suggestions. My best guess is that the problem resided in the Maxtor SATA hard drive. It had been partitioned in three primary partitions. Ultimately, the first partition on the drive became corrupted and caused the drive not be recognized on a cold start; Windows...
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    Problem Booting

    The present PSU is actually the third one associated with this computer. The last two PSU (HX650) were new. I attached as a 4th drive an IDE HD last night without any problem. I am actually thinking the problem may be in one of the drives that I have not swapped out (one is an older Maxtor 250...
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    Problem Booting

    VirtualLarry I am using a Corsair HX650 PSU. According to calculators I have seen on the Net, a 500 W PSU should be more than enough. That being said, why does a cold boot fail, but a reboot works fine?
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    Problem Booting

    SonnyDaze When I do a cold boot with all four of the drives properly cabled, none is identified. After I shut it down and do a warm restart all four drives are properly identified. All are then accessible in Windows, and Windows XP identifies all correctly as to model and capacity. If only...
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    Problem Booting

    I have reproduced this problem with two different Gigabyte motherboards, first with an EP35C-DS3R and then with an EP45-UD3R. I have three SATA drives attached and the computer boots fine. If I add a fourth SATA drive, none of the drives are recognized during POST. The computer then freezes...
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    How Many CPU Power Connectors To Use

    Thanks to all for your replies. Much more comfortable knowing that either configuration will work OK.
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    How Many CPU Power Connectors To Use

    I have been running an Intel E8400 cpu on a Gigabyte EP35c-DS3R motherboard. The motherboard failed recently, and is being replaced by Gigabyte with their EP45-UD3R motherboard. The old motherboard had a single 4-pin cpu power connector, while the replacement board has 2x4-pin connectors. My...