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Power issues

Dorkenstein

Dorkenstein

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I just hooked a new SATA drive into my computer. I have a 400 watt Zalman PSU which has flawlessly run a 6800GT, Audigy 2 ZS gamer, a cdrw, a dvdrw, an Asus K8n-E Deluxe 1 gb of ram and an Athlon 64 3200 mobile. Would adding one measly hard drive put my system over the PSU's limit? Or did I mash on something while I was installing the hdd? The only other thing I changed was that I plugged my exhaust fan into the jack on the motherboard labeled 'PWR_FAN'. That's it. Any ideas?
 
So what happened after you put the new drive in?, does it not happen if you unplug the drive

I assume you have at least one other hard drive on the system and I guess you also have a couple of fans installed, so you're probably running fairly close to 300W before you add another drive (the 6800GT and the CPU consume nearly 200W on their own)

Some fans draw too much power for the motherboard sockets, so you might want to reconnect your exhast fan back to the main psu power cables to be on the safe side.
 
I unplugged the fan from the mobo and it still does it.

I also unplugged the power cable from the SATA drive and it still does it.
 
Still doesn't power up except for the dvd drive. Could this be caused by using a RAID cable instead of a regular SATA cable? In any case I completely removed the SATA drive and everything works just fine. It sucks though, I need to get this SATA drive hooked up and I feel like I wasted my money.
 
there's only one type of SATA cable AFAIK

are you saying that the only device in your system that powers up when the SATA drive is connected is the DVD drive??

is there any display on your monitor when you have the SATA drive connected?



 
Absolutely nothing onscreen. That's correct, the only light I see is the DVD drive and the computer is almost completely silent so I am guessing that nothing else powered up.
 
can't say i know exactly what your prob is, but it certainly shouldn't be the power supply. it sounds like something in the way that drive is hooked up. when i tried to use a single hard drive on my optional raid ide, i couldn't get a boot. i had to hook my 4 hdd's up to primary and secondary ides then use my two raids for my 4 optical drives. that set up didnt work good tho for burning dvds (ok for cd's) so i had to move 2 dvd burners to my secondary ide, which means i have 2 hdd's just sitting here not hooked up since they will only work in raid mode.

hope this helps. forget about the power, you have enough for now.
 
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