Power Problem

Sharon · #1 2nd Jun 2007, 11:02

Can someone please help. I have a computer which has a AS Rock P4VM800 motherboard it is an intel pentium 3 I believe with a sata hard drive 160gb and 1gb ram. I recently tried to format a old 40gb hard rive, firstly I disconnected the sata hard drive incase something went wrong with it. I tried on a few occasions to format the old drive and it wouldn't recognise it, so gave up reconnected the sata drive and powered up, nothing happened except a green light came on. I thought that I had blown something on the motherboard and have bought a new motherboard a AS Rock K8NF6G-VSTA. I have connected it all up but still have the same problem. Could someone let me know what is the likely problem before I waste any more money.

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~~Wolfeymole~~ · #2 2nd Jun 2007, 11:19

Hello Sharon

Welcome to TCF

First what operating system are you running and was the old 40gb an ata drive or sata?

Sharon · #3 2nd Jun 2007, 15:48

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Originally Posted by Wolfeymole

Hello Sharon

Welcome to TCF

First what operating system are you running and was the old 40gb an ata drive or sata?

I'm running the 160gb on vista, the 40gb I had previously attempted to install windows 98 on it's an ata drive.

~~Wolfeymole~~ · #4 3rd Jun 2007, 11:53

Ok you have a few problems here Sharon.
I'm not sure of the priority when it come to Sata's and IDE's on the same board.
I welcome anyone to enlighten me.

However I would pull the sata, install the 40gb as primary master and use Fdisk to format it, you will of course have to set your bios accordingly.

Unfortunately you have changed your mobo and as that is regarded as a massive system hardware change Vista may not recognise it with regard to the original system setup.
I know XP won't.

Sharon · #5 4th Jun 2007, 00:15

Hi Wolfeymole,

Thank's for your reply, however the sata drive was disconnected so it was onle the IDE drive in the computer at the time there is no operating system on the 40gb drive, but I had previously tried to install Windows 98 and had been unsucessful. The problem I'm having is that after taking out the 40gb IDE drive and reconnecting the sata drive when you switch the computer on nothing happens except the front power led light coming on, this is why I thought it was the motherboard, but on buying a new one find that's not so. The sata drive had been working perfectly prior to disconnecting it. Sorry if i hadn't explained myself properly.