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Originally posted by Ashman
Try swapping power connectors, and or switching the direction of the cable. you made sure the red stripe lines up to pin 1, or blue stripe in the case of ultra ATA Cables. Also try a different IDE cable to be sure.
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Tried changing power connectors, and tried changing IDE cables. No luck.
And yeah, the red stripe's in the right spot.
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Make sure the CDrom's are on the secondary channel. Try swapping the CDRW to master and the CDrom to slave and see what happens. Change that cable too if you think it is suspect.
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I haven't yet tried switching the CD-RW to master and the CD-ROM to slave. I did also change the cable there, and have confirmed multiple times that the CD-ROM cable's on the secondary channel.
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If the case is new, Try having the power supply swapped to see if perhaps it is somehow defective in some sort.
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I already tried putting the original power supply in the new case. It didn't make a difference, but I haven't tried using the old power supply with a hard drive that hasn't been run on the new power supply. I did test the 80 GB drive on my girlfriend's computer and it does not spin up there either, but is emitting a low-pitched beeping. I E-mailed Western Digital to find out what's up, but I'm concerned that something's wrong with the power supply and that may have affected both drives (as aforementioned, I've now got two drives that won't even spin up when power's applied; one of them worked fine before this but now doesn't appear to work at all, anywhere). How can I test the power supply? {added in edit} I just tried my CD-ROM and my CD-RW in my girlfriend's computer. The CD-ROM wouldn't power up, and the CD-RW appears to be working normally. I have a bad feeling that the CD-ROM succumbed to the same fate the hard drives did; I dunno why the CD-RW's okay, though...not that I'm complaining; the CD-ROM's new so I can return it...
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One last thing, Clear the Cmos and when it is finally loaded, set the clock, then load bios defaults or setup default settings. Try booting.
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How do I do that? I'm guessing that I clear the CMOS by pulling the battery, but is it just a matter of removing and replacing the battery? I don't believe I have any software pertaining to the motherboard; if I pull the CMOS battery, will I lose anything that I can't get back?
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Make sure primary video device is set to the type of video card as well.
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How do you mean? How do I go about doing that?
Thank you. I may wind up doing that...I'm getting to the point of desperation here...