HD fried or connected wrong help?

[ajaz]

So i just installed a new motherboard cpu and ram into my current computer, everything iam pretty sure is installed the same way it was before.

i have a sata hd, and whenever its connected it doesnt seem to turn on. but when its unplugged the computer runs fine and i can run windows 7 of the cdrom.

is my hd fried or is that a connection issue?

if you guys need any other info let me know, ill try and tell you correctly

 

[johnb35]

So your saying the computer won't boot up if the power cable to the hard drive is connected? Either a bad hdd or bad power connector from PSU.

 

[ajaz]

yup. that seems to be the problem. ill try changing the connecter for the psu tomorrow. since i have no idea where the wires are. and also the first time i tried turning it on it did run, but couldnt detect the hdd when i was trying to reformat the hdd. and then when i tried re connecting it and messing with the power cables. thats when it stopped turning on when the hdd was connected.

 

[ajaz]

It was the hdd. got it replaced and am now running windows 7 64bit and my dvd drive for some reason doesnt want to run the bios and utilities disk for the new mobo. Is this a problem with windows or the drive? it actually doesnt seem to run anything. and was working perfectly fine while i was installing windows xp and windows 7 upgrade.