Question re: old build dies right after new build is complete

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MathWiz579

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Just finished building my new rig last night. Got it up and running with Vista Home Premium 64 bit. I then unplugged my old rig (8 years old with pretty much all original parts) and took out a PCI wireless card to put in my new rig. Put the card in my new rig then found out the card does not have drivers for Vista.

Took the card back out and put it back into my old rig. Plugged in my old rig and tried to turn it on. Now, pressing the power button on my old rig does nothing. When the old rig is plugged in, I do see a green light on the mobo but absolutely nothing happens when I push the power button.

I'm guessing that I either have a bad switch or the power supply finally died when I unplugged it for about 30 minutes. But I'm wondering if it has to be the switch as I can at least see a green light light up on the mobo when it's plugged in.

I really just want to get some of the data of my old rig's 80GB hard drive. Is this as simple as taking the old HD out, popping it in to my new rig, setting it as a slave drive, and booting up my new rig? Do I also need to set my main HD in my new rig to "master" or will this happen automatically if I set the jumper in the old HD to "slave"? Is there anything else I need to be concerned with here?

Thanks in advance for the help!
 
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1ceHacka

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You can set it through jumpers, or most BIOS you can simply set it.

Check the connections on your old rig from the power switch wiring to your MB.
 
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xSauronx

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for new builds everything should be SATA drives, and master and slave concepts are not relevant there, you just need to make sure the right drive is selected for booting from the BIOS. If your old drive is IDE set it to Cable Select and hook it up to the new build. Windows will probably see it right away and not require any extra effort from you to configure anything.

You can try to manually power the old mobo by removing the wires to the case power switch and shorting the 2 jumpers with a screwdriver. Probably be easier to take the case front panel off and see if the switch is stuck though before you bother doing that.
 
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MathWiz579

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Yes, the old HD is IDE. When I get home from work tonight I'll check the connection between the power button and the mobo. If that doesn't work I'll try the shorting the jumpers method to see if I can at least get the thing booted up once to get my data onto an external usb HD. If that doesn't work, I'll pull out the drive, throw it into the new rig, set it to cable select and get the data off that way.

I'm a bit surprised that the simple act of unplugging the computer for awhile along with taking out and putting back in a PCI card caused this to happen. Although given the age of the system, I guess anything could set it off.

EDIT: And yes, I did put the PCI card back in the same slot.
 
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techmanc

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There is a possibility that if you just add a second old hard drive directly to your new system that Windows tries to intergrate into the system which wil cause problems after the drive is removed. That will not happen if the drive is accessed through the USB2.0 connection.
 
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MathWiz579

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True. I'll probably stop by my local Best Buy when I look for my new wireless card and see if they have a cheap USB 2.0 hd enclosure just to make things easier.
 
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