I recently had a motherboard that was DOA and I RMAd it and got a new one. So I then get everything hooked up and turn it on, yay, working. Then it stops and says Detecting IDE... and hangs. I unplug my one IDE drive and it loads up my cd-rom fine and says that I have 0 SATA drives hooked up when there is one in there... I come to realize neither drive is spinning up.... WTF. How could this have happened? Is it my error? I figure it has to be something I did because the only connection the HDD has to the motherboard is through IDE or SATA and I highly doubt that was the cause of the drives dying. Any advice? I had a lot of files i'd like to keep on those drives :/ I'm probably going to have to buy a new drive now, blah!
2007-06-12 15:56:45 · 9 answers · asked by Life Is Illusive 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Might want to test your power supply. A defective power supply could have fried all of those components, including the motherboard.
Also, make sure your power supply can handle the load. If you've got a weak power supply (like below 350 or 400 watts for a normal computer, or 500-750 watts for a gaming rig), then the hard drives might not be spinning up because there's just not enough power getting to them.
2007-06-12 16:01:37 · answer #1 · answered by cs_gmlynarczyk 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The hard drive can fry if a power surge or static electricity has traveled through your motherboard, but since everything else is working and you say your motherboard was DOA, I don't think the two are related. Make sure, however, that the hard drives are also getting power. If this still doesn't work out, try investing in an external hard drive case (as little as $20). This way, you can hook your hard drives into it. Once you get a working hard drive into your case, you can take these old hard drives, which are now external hard drives inside the case, and try to access the data off of them from there.
2007-06-12 16:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by pooky254 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i'd take a look at your power supply. it may have been the thing that killed your last mobo. and it MAY have been the thing that killed those harddisks.
the ide cable wasn't the ONLY thing hooked to the disks.
take the power supply or the whole system to a reputable independent computer shop, and ask them to test your power supply.
another place to look is to make sure your motherboard is properly insulated from the case. there should be plastic or brass standoffs holding the board in the case, and nothing on the board should be touching any part of the case.
good luck, yep, it's frustrating, but you'll figure it out.
feel free to message me if you want more places to look.
2007-06-12 16:03:25 · answer #3 · answered by logan3111 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you have power going to the drives? Typically, IDE drives spin up when power is applied regardless of data activity. Also, if it is not being detected, did you try different data cable?
Also, if you have at least one parallel IDE, did you set the jumpers correctly?
2007-06-12 16:02:56 · answer #4 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
did you change any of the settings? how was it connected to the old motherboard? if it was through SATA, connect it to the new one through SATA. Bios settings should also be adjusted if your new motherboard supports both IDE and SATA. Trouble shoot your HDD one at a time. if its IDE, your IDE cable might just be plugged in the wrong way.
2007-06-12 16:02:30 · answer #5 · answered by rafayel 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Dude - you are not going to get your motherboard to recognize those hard drives without a reformat. You cannot just drop a formatted hard drive that has other drivers and expect your new motherboard to recognize your hard drives.
I hope you backed up your important files to the storage hard drive.
2007-06-12 16:03:37 · answer #6 · answered by sosguy 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes! If it has fouled up the FAT tables on the drives, they'll effectively be toast as far as retrieving data.
2007-06-12 16:04:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Have they been Partitioned and formated. Most Drives need to (when new) be formated before use.
2007-06-12 16:01:25 · answer #8 · answered by mrtazzone 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I guess it possible, butI would certainly try them in a different PC before abandoning hope.
2007-06-12 16:02:18 · answer #9 · answered by Amanda H 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋