re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom Friday, October 28, 2005 at 12:09 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7130 messages posted) Generally speaking, if the computer comes on to the point where you can see the BIOS settings on the screen and the CPU heat sink fan is spinning, any power difficulties to other components would first cast doubt upon the power supply, not the motherboard. So if the BIOS setup program is being displayed on the monitor and there is no power to the CDROM (no front LED, no drawer activity when the open drawer button is pressed), then try using a different power lead and Molex connector (the 1" wide white connector with four wires). Written in response to: re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (carol shaw: Friday, October 28, 2005 at 11:39 am) Responses to this message: re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (carol shaw: Friday, October 28, 2005 at 12:33 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (carol shaw: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 5:31 am) re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (Johnb33: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 5:50 am) re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (carol shaw: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 11:39 am) re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:09 pm) re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (carol shaw: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:33 pm) re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (Mick: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 1:48 pm) re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (Rik Davis: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 5:01 pm) re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (Super Dave: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 8:24 pm) re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom (carol shaw: Sat, Oct 29, 2005, 3:36 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum