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Stiltzkin · 07-12-2005, 11:19 PM

I'm having trouble getting my PSU to agree with my motherboard, and also having trouble getting my motherboard to agree with my hard drive.

I think it would help if you took a quick look at the stuff I bought, as some of my problems may speak for themsleves, or just skip down and keep reading:

Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138260
Power supply:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817704002
CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116200
RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820161633
Hard Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152014
Video Card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102552
DVD-ROM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827131410
DVD+/-RW:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827152039

Problem 1: The power supply has a 20-pin power connector that goes to the motherboard, but the motherboard has a 24-pin connector. I don't know if this is a problem or not, but sometimes, almost randomly, my computer will flat-out refuse to turn on. The CPU fan doesn't spin, nothing. Sometimes if I just wait it out a while it will turn on when I push the power on button though.

Problem 2: My hard drive is IDE/ATA, but the motherboard has only one IDE connector on it, as you can see from the newegg pic. I have three devices that I need to connect though: my hard drive, and my two optical drives. Well, it turns out that my motherboard has four SATA connectors on it... and one of my friends just so happened to have an IDE-to-SATA Adapter, which I will refer to as Adapter, with a capital A. It's the kind of Adapter that you plug directly onto the hard drive, then plug a SATA cable from the Adapter to the motherboard. Well, my computer refuses to detect the hard drive, but it detects the two optical drives just fine. The two optical drives are connected to that one IDE plug on the motherboard. Upon further inspection, though, I noticed that I had connected the SATA cable into SATA4 instead of SATA1, simply because SATA4 is closest to the CPU (according to my BIOS, SATA1 is master or something like that)

Anyway, at the current moment the computer refuses to power up. I have connected my HD to SATA1 now (it is labeled as SATA1 in the manual anyway), but I have yet to test it since I can't power it up. I have to admit, though, that I did something pretty stupid. When the computer first refused to detect the hard drive, I thought it clever to connect a regular 4-pin power connector onto the hard drive along with the Adapter's own little power connector. When I did this and tried to power it up, it refused to do anything. In fact, that was the first time that it refused to power up, and I'm assuming that I caused some kind of short circuit that effed something up in the power supply. The 20-24 pin thing might not even be an issue, but I just thought I'd throw it out there. I've also heard that SATA is somehow associated with something called IRQ's, or something like that. I'm thinking I'm gonna have to change some IRQ settings or something along those lines... except it still refuses to power up at this point, so I can't really do anything yet. Any help at all is extremely appreciated.

07-12-2005, 11:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
Stiltzkin Junkie	New Computer problems... I'm having trouble getting my PSU to agree with my motherboard, and also having trouble getting my motherboard to agree with my hard drive. I think it would help if you took a quick look at the stuff I bought, as some of my problems may speak for themsleves, or just skip down and keep reading: Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138260 Power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817704002 CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116200 RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820161633 Hard Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152014 Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102552 DVD-ROM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827131410 DVD+/-RW: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827152039 Problem 1: The power supply has a 20-pin power connector that goes to the motherboard, but the motherboard has a 24-pin connector. I don't know if this is a problem or not, but sometimes, almost randomly, my computer will flat-out refuse to turn on. The CPU fan doesn't spin, nothing. Sometimes if I just wait it out a while it will turn on when I push the power on button though. Problem 2: My hard drive is IDE/ATA, but the motherboard has only one IDE connector on it, as you can see from the newegg pic. I have three devices that I need to connect though: my hard drive, and my two optical drives. Well, it turns out that my motherboard has four SATA connectors on it... and one of my friends just so happened to have an IDE-to-SATA Adapter, which I will refer to as Adapter, with a capital A. It's the kind of Adapter that you plug directly onto the hard drive, then plug a SATA cable from the Adapter to the motherboard. Well, my computer refuses to detect the hard drive, but it detects the two optical drives just fine. The two optical drives are connected to that one IDE plug on the motherboard. Upon further inspection, though, I noticed that I had connected the SATA cable into SATA4 instead of SATA1, simply because SATA4 is closest to the CPU (according to my BIOS, SATA1 is master or something like that) Anyway, at the current moment the computer refuses to power up. I have connected my HD to SATA1 now (it is labeled as SATA1 in the manual anyway), but I have yet to test it since I can't power it up. I have to admit, though, that I did something pretty stupid. When the computer first refused to detect the hard drive, I thought it clever to connect a regular 4-pin power connector onto the hard drive along with the Adapter's own little power connector. When I did this and tried to power it up, it refused to do anything. In fact, that was the first time that it refused to power up, and I'm assuming that I caused some kind of short circuit that effed something up in the power supply. The 20-24 pin thing might not even be an issue, but I just thought I'd throw it out there. I've also heard that SATA is somehow associated with something called IRQ's, or something like that. I'm thinking I'm gonna have to change some IRQ settings or something along those lines... except it still refuses to power up at this point, so I can't really do anything yet. Any help at all is extremely appreciated. Last edited by Stiltzkin; 07-12-2005 at 11:25 PM..