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Originally Posted by BordomBeThyName
OK, I removed the drive from the case (it's a maxtor external, but the drive was a seagate, weird?) and put it in my friends desktop. After some experimenting, we found that if the molex connector was plugged in at all, the computer wouldn't turn on at all, but if just the data was plugged in, the system was fine.
HDD specs if anyone wants them:
Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 500GB IDE
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I think Seagate and Maxtor are owned by the same people now, so that isn't surprising.
When you say "wouldn't turn on at all" so you mean no lights, no fans, ect., or do you mean sits at the POST screen?
If its the first option I've never heard of anything like that. If its the second, its likely that the jumpers on the drive are mis-configured for the machine you installed the drive in, or there are settings in that machine's BIOS which are incompatible with that drive.