HDD power up failure

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Brittboy

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I have recently installed a P4 motherboard (1.7ghz) and when my PC is switched on, the HDD fails to power up. The HDD comes from a AMD based PC, so I know that it won't boot, but I can't understand why it doesn't power up ... I have tried a different HDD from a Pentium based PC and the same problem occurs ... can anyone help ????? Thanks
 
Also do you have another ide cable/sata cable? This has happened to me, and i replaced the ide cable and it worked.
 
It starts to boot ... the motherboard and proccessor are identified and the memory check completes OK ... when it gets to detecting the IDE drives, it cant (because there is no power)
 
do you have any other ide plug on the mobo that support the 80 wire ide devices? Try one of those if you do. You could also plug the drive into the cable being used by whatever cd/dvd drive you have and it should work there, with poor performance, but it might help in narrowing down the problem
 
Also id check you jumper settings make sure you dont have two devices on the same ide with the same jumper setting (eg both master or both slave).
 
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