Horribly Wrong

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MikeCarl1001

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Okay so I was attempting at getting a piece of hardware out of this old computer we had sitting rotting away in my other room. So I took it apart blah blah blah the hardware piece wasnt what I was looking for so I left it in there. I had unplugged everything from the power supply and unplugged all the slaves and what not. But I had forgotten which slave goes to what, which cord goes to what and so I tried for hours on end plugging these cords into what I thought was the right place but apparently not. Because when I plug the computer in, I press the power button, the computer turns on for about 5 seconds, and shuts it self off.

PLEASE ANYONE HELP. I need a quick solution.

thanks.
 
I take it your talking about the harddrive IDE cables? if so, the symptoms you describe are not related to that, its more like a dead motherboard or the motherboard shorting itself out to the case.
 
Well i'm talking about the cables that are greay and wider (I thought they were called slaves) well anyway there are like 6 of those and I figured I had them in the wrong slots, because I turn the computer on and it almost sounds like the connection can't be made because I hooked it up wrong.

What do you mean "shorting itself out to the case"
 
6 ide cables, that's alot. he could be talking about a scsi card and ribbons with multple plugs.
 
Hmm. Im sorry I couldnt provide more insight but I'm not too good with hardware.
Anyway do you think this could be a sign of busted fuse or something on the motherboard?
 
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