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Thread ID: 82721 2007-09-05 18:17:00 Intsalled a new PSU The Jaffa (12785) Press F1
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588322 2007-09-05 18:17:00 And now my PC will not boot with my 2 dvd drives connected.

The drives and the hard drive are connected to the motherboard (Gigabye GA 8N SLI) via a long thin grey cable that looks like a peice of licqorice. All tho three are connected to the new Power Supply Unit (a Trust 570W pro) via white connectors (molex, is that the right name?).

The computer boots when just the hard drive is connected, but not when the DVD drives are. If I connect them I the computer tales a loooong time to detect my HD (when it posts) and I get a message that says:

Mediashield BIOS ver. xxx copyright 2005 Nvidia Corp.
Detecting array...

and the compuetr hangs.

Ive ben told to disable RAID in the bios, this has had no effect. I have also tried ressetting the CMOS.

Can anyone help plz?
The Jaffa (12785)
588323 2007-09-05 19:45:00 Always check physical connections first.

Is your hard drive on it's own IDE cable (the licorice-like one)?

If so, is it on the right channel where it plugs into the motherboard? This is the channel that your motherboard manual says should be used for the master drive.

Are your DVD drives connected in the same order that they were last time? ie: the same one at the end of the cable as before - and the same one in the middle? Try swapping them.

Swap out the cables you are using for different ones. If the problem persists then you can be fairly sure the problem isn't the cables.

Above all - change one thing at a time while you're troubleshooting and then try it.

Hope this helps.
Deane F (8204)
588324 2007-09-06 00:40:00 Be sure that you have the master and slave jumpers in the right places according to their positions. The hard drive needs to be a master on the primary cable with a DVD drive set as a slave. FoxyMX (5)
588325 2007-09-06 03:04:00 So you did more than just change your Power Supply Unit! SolMiester (139)
588326 2007-09-06 22:58:00 Yes, I think you may have the IDE drives configured wrong with the Master/Slave settings Agent_24 (57)
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