New SATA HD

nj2tx · 05-20-2008, 07:59 PM

Hi Guys, I have a new hard drive and had some major noobish questions.
I just received my new hard drive and was curious what the first step was.
The system is a gateway GT5012 and the hard drive is a Western Digital WD1600AAJS.

Ok..the easy stuff is connecting the SATA cable and and the power cable, but if i do that the computer will not boot up. I can see a green light on the motherboard. Even though there is no OS on it, i thought i would atleast get a error message. I appreciate any help you guys can give

Thanks!
Doug

Mak213 · 05-20-2008, 11:12 PM

Do you already have a IDE driver already installed? Do you have the BIOS set to boot from SATA. Have you used the BIOS and turned on the SATA drive?

nj2tx · 05-21-2008, 07:21 PM

The computer originally came with a SATA hard dive, but it was actually stolen by an old roomate. The computer will not boot at all. I can see the green light on the motherboard showing power is cycling, but it just wont turn on ... any ideas?

Mak213 · 05-21-2008, 09:49 PM

Can you get into the BIOS? It will not boot cause you need to isntall a OS. For that boot from the CD first and install it.

nj2tx · 05-22-2008, 09:20 PM

actually it wouldnt even boot, i found out the hard drive was DOA....i got it up and running with another drive--thanks for responding

aeroplane22 · 05-22-2008, 10:16 PM

I had to remove the jumper from my SATA HDD. I overlooked it and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't boot. :laughing:

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