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PC won't power on w/ new Hard Drive

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Posted 18 November 2009 - 04:54 PM

I had a Western Digital 250GB SATA Hard Drive, I just bought a Western Digital 1TB SATA Hard Drive.

When I connect the 1TB drive my PC won't power on. The biggest differance I see is the old drive used the 4pin (molex, I think it's called) power connector, but the new one uses the SATA power connector. I had a single power cord from my PSU connecting both CD drives and the hard drive with my original setup. The way I have it configured now I have one cord for the CD drives and a seperate cord for the new hard drive.

Not sure what the problem is, any help would be nice.

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Posted 19 November 2009 - 01:12 PM

If I understand you correctly, you need one of these:
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Posted 19 November 2009 - 05:26 PM

Yeah, I picked one of those up yesterday, but I blew up my motherboard before hand, so I'm going to have to wait until the new one arrives.

I'm going to bring the new Hard Drive into class tonight and try it out on the lab computers just to make sure that it's working, so I don't run into the same problem with the new motherboard.

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Posted 21 November 2009 - 12:50 AM

I just wanted to update the topic... It turns out the new hard drive was defective. Unfortunately I fried my motherboard for no reason, but at least the problem with the hard drive wasn't my error. I'm returning the hard drive for a full refund and picking up a new motherboard with those funds. I also spent a little extra on video card because I noticed the one I was using had a couple blown capacitors.

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