new drive, no power to pc?

[philb]

i recentl bought a maxtor 250gig hd to use as a slave on my pc (packard bell
imedia xphome sp2 all patches ect) .
i use the 40gig hd with xp pre installed on it, and use an 80 gig maxtor
drive as a slave at the moment, so itook out the 80, put in the new 250
and....... errrr...... no power to pc?
won't even turn on.... nothing?

when i put it back to original state works fine again..... any ideas?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

i recentl bought a maxtor 250gig hd to use as a slave on my pc (packard bell
imedia xphome sp2 all patches ect) .
i use the 40gig hd with xp pre installed on it, and use an 80 gig maxtor
drive as a slave at the moment, so itook out the 80, put in the new 250
and....... errrr...... no power to pc?
won't even turn on.... nothing?

when i put it back to original state works fine again..... any ideas?

Your problem has nothing to do with Windows. Try a hardware newsgroup.

 

[DL]

Ideas range from a doa maxtor, to incorrect connections

 

[DanS]

i recentl bought a maxtor 250gig hd to use as a slave on my pc
(packard bell imedia xphome sp2 all patches ect) .
i use the 40gig hd with xp pre installed on it, and use an 80 gig
maxtor drive as a slave at the moment, so itook out the 80, put in the
new 250 and....... errrr...... no power to pc?
won't even turn on.... nothing?

when i put it back to original state works fine again..... any ideas?

As DL said, DOA HD or bad connections. I recently had a WD go bad. It
somehow developed a direct short between the 5v input and ground. The PC
would not turn on at all. No nothing.

That's easy enough to check with a multimeter. Set it to ohms scale and
probe the +5v input pin to ground, and the +12v input pin to ground. One of
them may show a direct short.

DanS

 

[Jonny]

In some PCs, if the slave is not jumpered properly, the bios will stop at
hard drive detection and just sit there.
Try it as primary on the secondary, nothing else attached to the secondary.

 

[over]

You could also try connecting just a power lead to the drive (not the
IDE cable) and see if the drive spins up when you turn on the machine.
It may be easier to tell if you leave the drive out where you can feel
it or even put your ear to it - you should hear it spin up and maybe a
single head seek, not repeated series of clicks or attempts to spin. If
it does not spin up or the power does not come on, there may be a bad
connector or other electrical fault with the drive or your power supply.

You can then try putting just the new drive on the IDE cable and see if
it is detected properly by the BIOS. If this works, but it doesn't work
with two drives, there is likely a master/slave jumper problem.

Is your 40G master drive perchance a Western Digital? These have
separate jumper settings for single (master alone), master (with a
slave), and slave. Most other brands use the same setting for single
and master with slave.

If you are using the cable select setting on any drive, you need to use
this on all the drives. I have also seen cases where the cable select
setting just does not work, requiring use of master/slave settings.