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re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom Friday, October 28, 2005 at 5:50 am Posted by Johnb33 (2283 messages posted) Are you sure you have the power to the motherboard connected? if the power supply checks out you could have a bad motherboard. On Friday, October 28, 2005 at 5:31 am, carol shaw wrote: >installed a new mother board asrock k7s41gx trying to format old drive, the hdd is >recieving no power cd rom drive is recieving no power, i have checked the power supply >working fine checked jumper settings not sure about them but followed instructions >this problem is driving us mad anyone have any help as we need to format drive in >order to install drivers for new motherboard cd rom wont open due to lack of power >therefor unable to boot from cd >any help greatly appreciated >carol [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom Friday, October 28, 2005 at 11:39 am Posted by carol shaw (4 messages posted) thanx very much for reply, power is definitely connected as monitor powers up and displays, primary master not detected and secondary master not detected the only thing working is the floppy drive so starting to think the board is goosed any other help or suggestions appreciated thanx carol On Friday, October 28, 2005 at 5:50 am, Johnb33 wrote: >Are you sure you have the power to the motherboard connected? if the power supply >checks out you could have a bad motherboard. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom Friday, October 28, 2005 at 12:09 pm Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7132 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). [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom Friday, October 28, 2005 at 12:33 pm Posted by carol shaw (4 messages posted) I have tried with the 300W power supply unit in the tower , I have also taken this out and replaced it with a 400w power supply from another machine i have , the 400w supply works fine in the other machine and so i assumed it would work ok in this one , the machine does access bios however the display mentioned earlier about no master devices being found might suggest a problem with the board as i have tried another more powerful supply , sorry to be pest but this is doing my head in and i am frustrated to the point of remodelling the old pc with a 16lb sledgehammer . On Friday, October 28, 2005 at 12:09 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >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). [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom Friday, October 28, 2005 at 1:48 pm Posted by Mick (163 messages posted) I'm running exactly the same motherboard on this PC, I fitted it about 4 months ago. What jumper settings have you changed? Have you got the IDE cables the right way around? Mick On Friday, October 28, 2005 at 5:31 am, carol shaw wrote: >installed a new mother board asrock k7s41gx trying to format old drive, the hdd is >recieving no power cd rom drive is recieving no power, i have checked the power supply >working fine checked jumper settings not sure about them but followed instructions >this problem is driving us mad anyone have any help as we need to format drive in >order to install drivers for new motherboard cd rom wont open due to lack of power >therefor unable to boot from cd >any help greatly appreciated >carol [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom Friday, October 28, 2005 at 5:01 pm Posted by Rik Davis (10 messages posted) This may be a silly question, but when you say you checked the power supply, did you double check the power connectors that go directly from the power supply to the drives to make sure they are securely connected? Are the connectors for the hard drive and cd on the same leads as the smaller connector for the floppy? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom Friday, October 28, 2005 at 8:24 pm Posted by Super Dave (365 messages posted) It is quite possible that both the primary and secondary IDE channels on your new motherboard are bad. By the way, you DO have the hard drive connected to the primary channel and the CD-ROM connected to the secondary channel, right? If you purchased the board from a reputable seller (NewEgg, ZipZoomFly, etc.) they will allow you to R.M.A. the board and exchange it or get a refund for it. It is not uncommon to receive a new motherboard that is defective, Carol! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: new motherboard old hard drive old cd rom Saturday, October 29, 2005 at 3:36 am Posted by carol shaw (4 messages posted) hiya guys thanx for replies, yes weve checked everything, the power suply weve fitted into machine to check it is a 400w power supply that runs my sons machine fine, swapped everything around the two machines and nothing works on this board, weve fitted ide cables to correct channels, jumper settings,followed motherboard instructions to the letter and reckon those are fine to still no power to cd rom or hard drive connected another hdd to new board and same thing cd rom and hdd get no power, beginning to think that new board is goosed, taking it back to change it today, any more problems ill be in touch, these small ANNOYANCES drive you mad dont they. thanx carol On Friday, October 28, 2005 at 8:24 pm, Super Dave wrote: >It is quite possible that both the primary and secondary IDE channels on your new >motherboard are bad. By the way, you DO have the hard drive connected to the primary >channel and the CD-ROM connected to the secondary channel, right? If you purchased >the board from a reputable seller (NewEgg, ZipZoomFly, etc.) they will allow you >to R.M.A. the board and exchange it or get a refund for it. It is not uncommon to >receive a new motherboard that is defective, Carol! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum