yo, a little help connecting my HDD

Few days ago i Bought a new hard drive (a Wester Digital Caviar Blue 160 Gb). but for some reason when i connect it, my pc doesn't turn on ...But when i have no hard drives connected, the pc turns on without problems.

Any ideas of what could be?

anyway, thx

PS: My mobo is an Intel D102GGC2 (it suks, i know) and i have a 550 Watts PSU ( i recently replaced my old one)

when you say it dosnt turn on, do you mean no power to the entire system at all (fans ect. off) or it powers up but will not boot into windows?

L2k wrote:when you say it dosnt turn on, do you mean no power to the entire system at all (fans ect. off) or it powers up but will not boot into windows?

good question, after reading what he wrote was thinking the exact same thing.

assuming that your system wont power up at all, meaning nothing powers up(fans, lights, etc) its almost a sure thing its the PSU. to test this, unplug all hard ware, unplug, case fans (NOT THE HEAT SINK FAN>>>>>>>AGAIN< NOT THE HEATSINK FAN) dvd drive power, if you are populating all slots of RAM remove a couple, if you have onboard video, use that and unplug power to your vid card if your card has plugs for power, if not remove the card completely. then power up. if still no response then you have a HDD issue, and not quite sure what it is. possibly a electicity issue with the drive itself shorting out your power flow. although the pc does opperate on pulses (DC) its still a circuit. i doubt that is the issue but, you never know. btw why did you buy a 160gig HD? also is the drive sata?

thx for ur replies guys, love ya ...and yeah when i turn on the pc, nothing happens, no power at all, but this happen only when i connect the HDD. :S

@Chem: yes it is a SATA driver...and why 160? beacuse my city suks at find good hardware.

and btw my english suks

Dark Soul wrote:thx for ur replies guys, love ya ...and yeah when i turn on the pc, nothing happens, no power at all, but this happen only when i connect the HDD. :S

@Chem: yes it is a SATA driver...and why 160? beacuse my city suks at find good hardware.

and btw my english suks

Well, its most likely the Power Supply not being able to give out enough juice as chem said, but it could also be a shot circuit on the motherboard for that connector. Try using a different port and see if it still boots if possible.

Dark Soul wrote:thx for ur replies guys, love ya ...and yeah when i turn on the pc, nothing happens, no power at all, but this happen only when i connect the HDD. :S

@Chem: yes it is a SATA driver...and why 160? beacuse my city suks at find good hardware.

and btw my english suks

idk, was just wondering cause thats a very small HDD by today's standards and you can get a TB drive for less than $100 now

My next question is how are you connecting the power to the HDD?

Are you using a dedicated wire from the power supply that is not connected to anything else (for example no splitter (Y)

Check that HDD before you dump out a bunch of money on something. I bought a new one a while back with some internal connections crossed and it shorted everything out when I tried to power up the comp with it attached. Try it out in another comp or get someone to test it.

thx anyone for ur replies!!

i tried connecting the HDD on different sata ports, but still nothing :S. it only happens with this HDD, even if i connect my 320 gb disk, no problem, the pc turns on.

the only thing i have to do is connect the disk to another comp...i'll try that on this days.

pce