SATA Hard Drive Problem...

BadRobot

BadRobot

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I recently bought myself a new Seagate 320GB 7200RPM 16mb SATA Hard Drive, which i am going to use as my new primary drive and start a clean slate.

The problem i'm having is that when i connect it and try to turn my computer on, my pc boots up for about half a second and then turns itself off... Even if i turn it on with the power cable not connected and then connect it when the computer is on, it just turns of as soon as it contacts the molex connector.

My current PSU dosent have a SATA connection so im having to use one of them sata adapters which plugs in to a spare molex connector. I should be getting a new PSU soon though.

Does anybody know what the problem is?

Also could somebody explain what the RAID function is when setting up a hard drive and do i need it.

Many Thanks
Sam.
 
I would think the PSU would shut off once plugged into the mobo, as the mobo isn't sending the signal to turn on the PSU, and thus will turn it off.

I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, but as for your question about RAID, it literally means "redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks". There many different versions of RAID, but the two most common ones are RAID 0 and RAID 1. RAID 0 takes data and splits it among two drives, in theory decreasing seek times. RAID 1 copies everything that is on one harddrive on another, so that everything is always backed up, and if one drive goes than you have all your data. With all forms of RAID, you need two or more drives, usually of equal data capacity (if they are different, on the one that is larger, you can only use as much as the smaller drive). It is not necessary to setup RAID in order to use the harddrive.
 
computermaineack said:
I would think the PSU would shut off once plugged into the mobo, as the mobo isn't sending the signal to turn on the PSU, and thus will turn it off.

I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, but as for your question about RAID, it literally means "redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks". There many different versions of RAID, but the two most common ones are RAID 0 and RAID 1. RAID 0 takes data and splits it among two drives, in theory decreasing seek times. RAID 1 copies everything that is on one harddrive on another, so that everything is always backed up, and if one drive goes than you have all your data. With all forms of RAID, you need two or more drives, usually of equal data capacity (if they are different, on the one that is larger, you can only use as much as the smaller drive). It is not necessary to setup RAID in order to use the harddrive.
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Cheers, I think i'l wait for my new PSU to get delivered as to be honest my current psu can hardly even spin my fans round... thats how crap it is.

Perhaps its my psu thats the problem?
 
that may be your problem... overloading it. if all your psu ports are used up then that may be the problem, try unplugging everything except the mobo , 4 pin and the SATA.
 
If you think the problem is too much power, simply see if your computer will POST with less stuff attached. Perhaps try only using your SATA drive and no others(including optical drives)
 
I have just bought a new 570w psu and guess what... it does exactly the same thing, so i can tick the power supply of the list.

I'm starting to dread if its the actual hard drive which is faulty, but surely the computer would still boot up to some extent even if it was.

I just cant think what the problem could be.

Any more suggestions?

Cheers.
 
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