Kind of urgent tech problem... help?

[BordomBeThyName]

Originally Posted by EHaskins

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.

I guess that would explain the brands, then.

By "wouldn't turn on at all" I mean the fans and leds would flash for a fraction of a second. No POST, no errors, no green light on the monitor.

I tried it with the jumpers on master, slave, and cs, so it wasn't that.

I've worked with a pretty good amount of systems too, and usually a broken drive just doesn't register, or gets a disk read error, or that one about media cables that I used to get a lot. The complete lack of power is pretty new to me too, and I don't even understand how that's possible, because even if the +5 and -5 aren't connecting, it should still boot just fine.

Anyways, since it's such a weird thing that I've never seen happen before, I'm gonna buy a new enclosure from radio shack and try it on a more familiar system.