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For those who DIY PCs ....

6 durable postsStarted 2006-11-13Latest 2006-11-14
#34980Post 1 of 6

i have a question ...

i bought a Maxtor 300gb SATA hdd to add on to my system and when i plugged it in .. my system wouldnt start up .. i thought my power supply wasnt enough to run all the components so i upped it from 400w to 450w and it still wouldnt start up

i tried unplugging one of my older hdd and plug the new one in and it still wouldnt start up but when i changed it back to my original configuration its running fine ..

is it possible that the new hard drive that i have is faulty cos it seems like it to me ...

#750591Post 2 of 6

Re: For those who DIY PCs ....

be sure you didn't plug it into the RAID SATA pin vs. Regular one. Check your Mobo Manual

#750746Post 3 of 6

Re: For those who DIY PCs ....

nope its not set under RAID .. i tried plugging the new drive into the same SATA connection that my older drive is using and it shuts the system down as well

#750765Post 4 of 6

Re: For those who DIY PCs ....

Do SATA drives have master/slave settings? Is that set correctly?

#751161Post 5 of 6

Re: For those who DIY PCs ....

SATA drives are all set as master drive by default if im not wrong ... anyway it was a hdd fault ... one of the chip on the drive broke which was why it caused so much problems .. brought back to the store and had it replaced

#751374Post 6 of 6

Re: For those who DIY PCs ....

and it works fine when plugged in now...good...

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