Fiery
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I have a newly built tower.
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P Motherboard AM3, Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875W PSU with a Sata Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Harddrive.
In my old Dual Core tower, I had 1 x 320GB Sata HD, and 160GB IDE HD (the 160 was used for backup purposes).
So I took the 160 IDE out of my old tower, plugged it into the board, I had some trouble locating a molex cable, but I found a spare one in my box of goodies.
Plugged in the molex.
So the HD had power and a reader.
On this new PSU, I have noticed that it only has Red and Black connectors.
So anyways I booted up the tower, made sure the motherboard was able to locate new HD's, it didn't find it. I have not changed the jumper settings, as it is the only IDE addon in this tower, I have left is as Master.
Rechecked the cable in the mobo, and the power to the HD and PSU, rebooted still wouldn't find it.
Swapped out the IDE ribbon for a new IDE ribbon, rebooted. It still cannot find it.
So my question (even though I think I know the answer) does the new PSU red and black only cabling have anything to do with it?
The same OS is being used in my new tower as was my old tower, although this should not factor into it.
Oh footnote while I think of it. I had a brand new Sony Floppy Drive installed. The tower could see it, but it wouldn't work at all.
I have a newly built tower.
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P Motherboard AM3, Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875W PSU with a Sata Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Harddrive.
In my old Dual Core tower, I had 1 x 320GB Sata HD, and 160GB IDE HD (the 160 was used for backup purposes).
So I took the 160 IDE out of my old tower, plugged it into the board, I had some trouble locating a molex cable, but I found a spare one in my box of goodies.
Plugged in the molex.
So the HD had power and a reader.
On this new PSU, I have noticed that it only has Red and Black connectors.
So anyways I booted up the tower, made sure the motherboard was able to locate new HD's, it didn't find it. I have not changed the jumper settings, as it is the only IDE addon in this tower, I have left is as Master.
Rechecked the cable in the mobo, and the power to the HD and PSU, rebooted still wouldn't find it.
Swapped out the IDE ribbon for a new IDE ribbon, rebooted. It still cannot find it.
So my question (even though I think I know the answer) does the new PSU red and black only cabling have anything to do with it?
The same OS is being used in my new tower as was my old tower, although this should not factor into it.
Oh footnote while I think of it. I had a brand new Sony Floppy Drive installed. The tower could see it, but it wouldn't work at all.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Homebuilt
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II x 4 965
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P
- Memory
- 4GB DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 TI
- Sound Card
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Phillips 19"
- Screen Resolution
- 1280 x 1024
- Hard Drives
- 1 x 128GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
1 x 1TB Sata
1 x 160GB IDE
1 x 2Tb WD External My Book Elite
1 x 1TB WD External My Book Elite
1 x 4TB WD External My Book
- PSU
- Thermaltake 850W XT
- Case
- Coolermaster Storm Sniper Black Edition
- Cooling
- AC-ALPINE-64PRO ARTIC COOLING
- Keyboard
- 12 year old Compaq, cant see any of the letters anymore :)
- Mouse
- Microflacid Sterile
- Internet Speed
- ADSL2+
- Other Info
- My husband and I divorced over religious differences.. He thought he was God and I didn't.
