SATA woes

clsCorwin

So, did some cleaning today. Blew out the dust, and replaced my 2 case fans, since one had seized bearings, and the other was about to follow. Well after I get the new fans in and go to power on... nothing.

I chase my tail for a bit, and finally just give one device at a time power until I find out my cukprit. Turns out its my SATA drive, which was working quite fine this morning.

Any thoughts? My SATA drive is connected to the power supply via a 4 pin molex adapter, fyi.

Ruckus

clsCorwin wrote: »

So, did some cleaning today. Blew out the dust, and replaced my 2 case fans, since one had seized bearings, and the other was about to follow. Well after I get the new fans in and go to power on... nothing.

I chase my tail for a bit, and finally just give one device at a time power until I find out my cukprit. Turns out its my SATA drive, which was working quite fine this morning.

Any thoughts? My SATA drive is connected to the power supply via a 4 pin molex adapter, fyi.

Have you tried another connector, preferably on a different string?

Also you could try a Molex>SATA power adapter, it could be a problem with the Molex connector on the harddrive itself.

clsCorwin

I did try different connections, different string, separating it from my IDE drives. I eventually just connected ONLY the SATA drive, and I had this problem still.