HDD & CD wont spin

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vir3nt

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I have an old piece-of-sh!t comp that i am trying to get working again to put slack on it. I got it started and It wouldn't boot. (probably the disk is formatted anyways). Then i realised that the drive wasn't spining up. I inspected the IDE cables and made sure they were fully connected. bios does not detect the drive. I later found that if I disconnect the IDE cable with the power supply still plugged in the drive will start spinning and then (sometimes) make a clicking sound about once every second. The CD drive has the same problem of not spinning and will not open the tray unless I have the IDE cable unplugged from the drive. Once i plug the IDE cable back onto the drives they still spin but will not respond. I suspect it is a motherboard problem, but i want another opinion. If its not going to be something i can easily fix I will just toss it. :cool:

Approx. Specs:
Pentium MMX proc.
128mb Ram
32mb Video card
4gig hdd
 
If replacing the cable doesn't work, then I'd suspect that your IDE controller is on the blink... meaning toss the mobo.
Tom
 
vir3nt said:
I have an old piece-of-sh!t comp that i am trying to get working again to put slack on it. I got it started and It wouldn't boot. (probably the disk is formatted anyways). Then i realised that the drive wasn't spining up. I inspected the IDE cables and made sure they were fully connected. bios does not detect the drive. I later found that if I disconnect the IDE cable with the power supply still plugged in the drive will start spinning and then (sometimes) make a clicking sound about once every second. The CD drive has the same problem of not spinning and will not open the tray unless I have the IDE cable unplugged from the drive. Once i plug the IDE cable back onto the drives they still spin but will not respond. I suspect it is a motherboard problem, but i want another opinion. If its not going to be something i can easily fix I will just toss it. :cool:

Approx. Specs:
Pentium MMX proc.
128mb Ram
32mb Video card
4gig hdd
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Have you got the jumpers set right master-slave on the drives
 
holyjunk125 said:
Might also be a power issue. Tell us your specs on the psu. They should be on it's side.
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Why would that matter? You could run everything off a 120W PSU, you would be lacking in someparts yes, but your hdd and cd drive would still spin.
 
Motoxrdude said:
Why would that matter? You could run everything off a 120W PSU, you would be lacking in someparts yes, but your hdd and cd drive would still spin.
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Your right. Didn't fully read it and that was a dumb answer.
 
vir3nt said:
I have an old piece-of-sh!t comp that i am trying to get working again to put slack on it. I got it started and It wouldn't boot. (probably the disk is formatted anyways). Then i realised that the drive wasn't spining up. I inspected the IDE cables and made sure they were fully connected. bios does not detect the drive. I later found that if I disconnect the IDE cable with the power supply still plugged in the drive will start spinning and then (sometimes) make a clicking sound about once every second. The CD drive has the same problem of not spinning and will not open the tray unless I have the IDE cable unplugged from the drive. Once i plug the IDE cable back onto the drives they still spin but will not respond. I suspect it is a motherboard problem, but i want another opinion. If its not going to be something i can easily fix I will just toss it. :cool:

Approx. Specs:
Pentium MMX proc.
128mb Ram
32mb Video card
4gig hdd
Click to expand...
I have had this problem once before. It was because my ide cable was plugged in backwards.
 
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