i am trying to connect a 40 gb hard drive that my friend gave me( it was working fine on his computer)in addition to an earlier installed 40 gb hard drive, but whenever i attach the power wire of the smps of my system to the hard drive my system cannot power up, the fan just rotates one round and my network card light stays on but my system dosent power up. i have a compaq presario P4 1.9GHz with 40 gb hard drive and 640 mb ram. the system peripherals are CD-Writer, DVD-Writer, Scanner, WebCam, Printer.
Can you help??
2006-11-04 03:14:47 · 4 answers · asked by heres_chand 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
i have tried setting the jumpers but to no avail, as soon as i plug in the power cable into the hard drive my system dosent start, dosent power up, it works fine if the power cable is disconnected from the hard disk
2006-11-04 06:52:52 · update #1
check your jumper settings
2006-11-04 03:19:09 · answer #1 · answered by spankdis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
on the hard drive there are little prongs sticking up with a little plastic box that fits over them. these are called jumpers. in order for your harddrive to be consided by your computer as an extra harddrive and not the one with the operating system on it, that little jumper (plastic box) has to be on the right two prongs. it needs to be in the slave position. there should be a sticker on the harddrive that tells you where to put the jumper to make it a slave drive. you might have to chekc the position of the jumper on your first harddrive to make it a master drive
2006-11-04 03:19:26 · answer #2 · answered by free_indeed2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well you may hav to check ur jumpers as earlier users told you..
check them according to the labels on th harddisk....there should not be two masters or two slaves on same ide. i guess u are using ide interface..........
other thing is you SMPS.. check if it works well without the hard disk bieng put up...i guess it soes.. but the power ur SMPS may be of less capcity, watts as you say it you have a very demanding system so you will need atleast 350 watts of smps.. check out, mail me or use im for details
2006-11-04 03:25:41 · answer #3 · answered by lucky_bikdel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you set it as slave.
2006-11-04 03:32:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋