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PC Won't Power On After connecting HD

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machantu

Junior Member
Hi everyone,

I tried connecting my laptop HDD to my desktop using an EIDE adapter. I think I misconnected the jumper (i.e. across the wrong pins). I tried powering on my computer - I heard it turn on for a split second. After that it would not turn on again. I have checked the connections however it still would not turn on.

What could be the problem? Did I blow the power supply?

I tried connecting my HD back to my laptop and it still works. So I don't think I blew my HD

Any insight would be appreciated.
 
Most likely the PS is gone. Just change out the PS if you don't want to it to kill anything else.
 
Well, if you can still boot up to the original desktop HD, chances are your PSU is fine.

Sometimes HD's just won't work with some jumper settings. I have a WD 160gb PATA drive that only works with cable-select and slave jumper settings, and my IBM 30gb PATA only works with master and slave jumper settings.

If all else fails, you could order a external enclosure to see if you can access the drive over USB/firewire, as long as you don't want to boot to the drive (besides, laptop drives are slow and only useful for storage and laptops anyways).
 
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