Installed OCZ ModStream, now motherboard can't see any IDE drives.

[The Internal]

Greetings,

I replaced my PSU today with the OCZ modstream 450 watt and now none of my IDE devices are working! Both my optical drives and 120 GB western digital won't show up. If I have any devices hooked up to the seconary IDE cable, my computer won't make it past the "detecting drives" phase. It just hangs.
I've tried both IDE channels and different cables. I tried changing the jumpers on the drives. I've tried resetting the BIOS. I can have two devices getting power on the primary IDE channel, but they still aren't being detected!
I've never seen anything quite like this. Please HELP!
(Oddly enough, my SATA drive is being read fine).

 

[meltdown75]

This is a dumb question but you didn't connect the power cables to the drives while the PSU was plugged in did you? I'm assuming no.

Have you checked to see if they will detect using your old PSU again? Very strange. Perhaps disconnect your SATA drive and see if you get your IDEs to detect - perhaps it is a conflict but I can't see why changing the PSU would cause it. It must be something simple.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: The Internal
Greetings,

I replaced my PSU today with the OCZ modstream 450 watt and now none of my IDE devices are working! Both my optical drives and 120 GB western digital won't show up. If I have any devices hooked up to the seconary IDE cable, my computer won't make it past the "detecting drives" phase. It just hangs.
I've tried both IDE channels and different cables. I tried changing the jumpers on the drives. I've tried resetting the BIOS. I can have two devices getting power on the primary IDE channel, but they still aren't being detected!
I've never seen anything quite like this. Please HELP!
(Oddly enough, my SATA drive is being read fine).

Long shot- This happened to me once, after spending frickens hours on it I found the brand new psu was defective. The was no power on the 4 pin connectors so none was getting to the drives. (funny, but the optical drive lit up? I guess some power comes through the IDE cable?)

Hook up a case fan to the headers and see if they turn to determine if any power is on those connectors.


Fern