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Originally Posted by Alvin.C  There simply is no point in purchasing a new PSU. Given the information, it does not seem to be the problem.
3.5" IDE cables do not provide power to the Hard Drive, the 4 pin molex power cable from the PSU does. Patchiz has stated that, when all the IDE cables are disconnected, and all drives are connected to the PSU, all hardware receives power.
Connecting the IDE cables will not increase power demand from the PSU.
Some more information that is needed. Patchiz, when you disconnect all the IDE cables, but leave all your drives connected to the power supply, does your system power on and POST successfully? (does the BIOS initialize and does the system try and boot into an OS?).
Also, how many Watts is your PSU?
Have you tried using a different IDE cable? And have you tried removing all IDE cables and only connecting one drive up to the motherboard with one IDE cable (such as the hard drive)? |
Yes, I tried using a different power supply. turns out that wasn't the problem. i purchased some new ide cables and that didn't work right away, so i elevated my mb like u said to, though it was already elevated, i elevated it some more, and i removed all the cards from my pci slots, and my computer works fine now. thank you so much. you sound really professional, are you a qualified computer technician of some sort?