Eeek, HELP

[Arcuivie]

Well, I just got my SLI deluxe board in and put everything together all snazzy like, and well, when I was inserting the power connector to the motherboard I forgot I left the PSU on from testing the Koolance water cooling kit. Well, everything came on for a second and then shut off again. I feared for a bit that everything was fried, but it booted up ok (it stayed in setup FOREVER). Anyway, once I got into the BIOS everything was looking great, CPU temp, clock speed, FSB, the amount of ram I had, etc. etc. Only one thing was missing (rather two), my hard drives weren't there. So, I cut off the comp, poked and prodded and nothing. Well, I took my HD's to my old computer, hooked them up one at a time (stayed in setup forever too, btw). One didn't allow the screen to leave the setup screen, the other got me into the bios, but game me the wrong hard drive name a capacity. Did I fry my hard drives? With what I did with the power chord, what else could be affected (even though everything seems to be running smoothly). Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Was the mobo completely setup with CPU, VGA and ram installed when you plugged it in? If not it failed a post test and thats why is shut down. And I don't think hitting your mobo with power can harm your hard drives.

What motherboard are you using?
Type of Hard drives?
What controllers are you connecting them to?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Double Post! Stupid Server!

 

[Arcuivie]

Yea it all was. Thing is, I didn't turn it on when I plugged in the power chord to the mobo, it just came on automatically for a second and went off.

A8N Sli-Deluxe
Western Digital 120 GB HD (2x)
IDE

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Doesn't sound like you fried any thing.

Do you have both of the ide drives connected to the same cable?

 

[Arcuivie]

Yea, everything is connected correctly, and I've tried many variations. I'm gonna get an older hard drive from this dell and see if it does anything.

If anyone else has any idea let me know

 

[mechBgon]

Any Western Digital PATA drive that has its own data cable, should have its jumper set for Single Drive. Do not use Master, do not use Slave, do not use Cable Select, use Single Drive That's done by pulling the jumper cap off the pins and feeding it to a gerbil (or at least just leaving it off the pins altogether).

 

[GuitarDaddy]

And if both drives are on the same cable they must be correctly jumpered as master and slave, and matched to the master and slave connections on the cable

 

[Arcuivie]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Any Western Digital PATA drive that has its own data cable, should have its jumper set for Single Drive. Do not use Master, do not use Slave, do not use Cable Select, use Single Drive That's done by pulling the jumper cap off the pins and feeding it to a gerbil (or at least just leaving it off the pins altogether).

I did that man :S. I'm starting to think I've just run out of all luck (got in a wreck yesterday, girlfriend had to go home to florida early for some stupid reason, and now this). I pulled an old WD out of an old P3 Dell, and hooked it up to this comp (it has been working). Well, when I went to power on the computer, it came on for half a second then shut off. Once I unplugged the drive it didn't and booted up into the BIOS fine (still hung a lot).

 

[mechBgon]

It's certainly possible that you damaged the mobo with the negligent hot-plugging of its power-supply cable, yeah. It's nothing money can't fix, though

One other thing: ensure that your keyboard is in the purple port if it's a PS/2-style keyboard (round plug).

 

[Arcuivie]

ARG. This is far too stressful. Any other possibilities?

 

[Arcuivie]

Well, found out why it hung, the mobo's atx connector wasn't in all the way. Attempting an install of XP with an undetected mobo with manual parameters.

Edit: No avail.

 

[mechBgon]

Yeah. Take the board out of the case, lay it on cardboard, and threaten it a bit. Now with it unplugged from the PSU, take out the CMOS battery. Move the CMOS jumper to the Clear position for about 30 seconds, move it back to normal, put the battery back in, and plug it into your PSU (which is not turned on this time ).

Add your video card, one memory module in the third DIMM slot from the left, and of course you have the CPU and heatsink/fan unit on there. No keyboard, no mouse, no drives, no case wiring except the power-switch wire. Try it like that. It should freak out because it has no keyboard. Turn off the PSU with the rocker switch, punch the Power button on the case to drain the PSU's caps, and plug in your keyboard in the purple port and now try again.

If it'll go into the BIOS and stuff, raise the memory voltage to something that's appropriate for your RAM (use 2.7 volts if you don't know what to use), then do a Save & Exit and let it go alllllllllllllllllllll the way through the next POST until it stalls out for lack of bootable devices, then turn the PSU off and add one optical drive and fire it up again.

With the optical drive in there, see if you can persuade it to begin Windows Setup from CD-ROM as a test. No, there isn't a hard drive yet, but see how it does.

If that works, then add one of the hard drives, set for Single Drive, on its own data cable and try Windows Setup again as another test. If it acts strange, then shut it down and try the other hard drive instead.

 

[Arcuivie]

Well, before I got into the windows setup thing and all that jazz. I'll try all that out (maybe not to that extent though ).

 

[Arcuivie]

I was trying the keyboard part, and well, it didn't freak out. It just went on with it's business.

 

[Arcuivie]

Bumpity bump.