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Megadeth_Guy01

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Omfg I need help really bad right about now. I took apart my PC as I do monthy to clean out all the dust, etc, and to tidy up some cables. I took everything apart carefully and put them on anti-static bags that I had. Once I was done and finished re-assembling my system I powered it up and noticed a few things right away. One, my heatsink's fan was spinning unusually slow and I couldn't hear it as I usually can. It's the fan on a Thermaltake Volcano 12, and it spins at 5000RPM normally so you can hear it in the next room over sometimes. The second thing I noticed was that when my motherboard tried to detect any IDE devices it would sit there idle and not find my HDD or CDRW drives. Nor can I get into my BIOS while it is looking for them. When I unplugg them both I can get into my BIOS, but for some reason when they are plugged in I can't detect them. Has my PSU gone bad??? Please help soon someone I need some help very badly.
 
C'mon [H]'ers this is really a big deal, I have almost no money to fix it and need to know whats wrong here.
 
I know nothing about that or i would help you but cmon! someone help out a [h]ard folder!
 
Have you double and triple checked all power connections? Have you seated the processor, heatsink, etc. along with any AGP/PCI-E/PCI cards? I would remove every non-essential piece of hardware to narrow it down. Use working parts from another PC, eg. PSU, CPU, etc.

Good luck.
 
The first thing I would do would be to remove the cmos battery and reset the jumpers for 30 min, put the battery back in then put the jumpers back like they're supposed to be....Then try powering it up and see what happens....
 
The connections are all 100% ok, and the CPU has nothing to do with this. It wouldn't POST if this was a CPU related problem. All my temps are OK too from the readout in the BIOS. This problem is only occuring when IDE devices are being detected. I can live with a 2500RPM fan tho, even tho that bugs me that it should be running at 5k RPM for some reason.
 
Did you maybe switch the IDE hookups? Make sure the slave is plugged into the slave, and master into the master. Also, make sure you didn't switch your primary and secordy channels or something. Also, make sure you plugged the CPU fan back into the plug you had it in. Might want to check that you didn't plug everything into 1 12V line or something.
 
I think I now have reason to believe the PSU was the suspect here. I tried to turn the system on again about 10 minutes ago to hear a loud "crackell... POP POP!!!". I then immediatly powered the system down and unplugged it and then smelt my first ever burning silicon. It was horrid and the stench still wreaks in my room. I was like... "Holy jeezuz, I hope that wasn't my CPU or graphics card. I then took off the side panel and smelt around for the strongest area that smelt like burning crap and it led to my poor CD burner. The sucker smelt worse than a Russian Hooker on hot summer day. After some speculation I deicided to open the burner up to see a few transistors/chips with brown and black bubbly areas with holes. Blasted Raidmax PSU, I'm not going to try and power it up again until I order a new PSU and install it. How does an Antec True 380 sound? Or should I consider a different manufacturer?
 
Wow, well it turns out my HDD is borked as well. I don't know how I'm going to pay for a new PSU, CDRW and now HDD. Thanks alot Raidmax, I swear it should be illegal for manufacturers to produce shit PSU's. Or at least cover the damage's their shit product creates.
 
Megadeth_Guy01 said:
Wow, well it turns out my HDD is borked as well. I don't know how I'm going to pay for a new PSU, CDRW and now HDD. Thanks alot Raidmax, I swear it should be illegal for manufacturers to produce shit PSU's. Or at least cover the damage's their shit product creates.
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Well, it sounds like it was running fine until you took everything out and put it back together. Not to be an ass, but it sounds like user error.
 
Yeah, I think my messing with it had some effect on it. But, what could I have possibly done to make it fry my HDD and CDRW? I'd like to find this out so I don't do it again along down the road sometime.
 
MAybe you wont find out until you untie everything and see if some live wire went grounded :(

Good Luck man

OldMX
 
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