Bad IDE Ports on Motherboard?

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RuffRyderVT

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My computer will not start up. I am well experienced, and yet can only break it down to the solution of a new motherboard. Maybe someone who reads this will think of another solution.

I tested each component of the PC seperately into a working PC. Everything works. The motherboard is brand new out of the box. When the power to the CD ROM and Hard Drive is plugged in (without the IDE Cable), they power up, however if the IDE cables are plugged into the CD ROM or the Hard Drive they do not power up. This is where the problem is. Either the ports on the Motherboard for the IDE cables are bad, or the cables themself are bad. However, the cables and Motherboard are both brand new, right out of the box. So how can that be?!

Since I cannot get the hard drive to power up when the IDE cables are plugged in, the OS does not load, therefore the PC just does nothing but blow the CPU Fan. Any suggestions?

Thank you!

-RuffRyder
 
Sometimes components that are bad get shipped to ya. Make sure no pins are bent on the IDE ports of either the motherboard or the CD-ROM or Hard drive, and also check to make sure neither IDE cable has a cut in the wires. Also, you'll want a quality 300W power supply or better of such brands as Antec, Sparkle, or Enermax, among others.
 
Bad IDE Ports on Motherboard

I have recently tried building 2 new systems and have experienced the same problem of where the Hard Drive, CD, DVD or Floppy will power up but if you connect the ribbon cables then they go dead. The first was an FIC 1st Mainboard K7 ATI - AT31 Fusion motherboard the second was with an Albatron KX400+ Pro motherboard. Yes the cables were new, I even tried different cables and yes the red line was correctly positioned and the pins were all straight. I could take the same components and put them in a working older system and all was fine. My case was an Antec SLK2600 AMB with an Antec 300watt powersuppy. I even tried a second case and power supply same problem.

With both of these systems I was also having a problem with even getting a VGA video signal to the monitor and strangely enough no beep codes or tones. They both had new AMD boxed processors and the cooling fan was working. They would power up but nothing would work.

The only thing I have not tried substituting is different DDR memory. Although the memory I am using is supposedly new and of the best quality. But even if I pull the memory out the problem still occurs.

Alll these boards you buy have little stickers proclaiming they have been manaufactured under ISO 9001 or 14001 Quality Certified Manaufacturing. I don't believe it for a second. I have had too many boards over the years with problems that any decent QC should have noticed.
 
well iso 9001 does not mean the board is built with a certain procedure, it only means the company always use the same procedure (which would be bad in my opinion), plus, they have to pay for it so good companies who refuse to pay won't have the iso certification and bad companies who do pay will get the certification.

maybe these boards have compatibility problems also, it could be as simple as that.
 
That FIC board had alot of problems from what I've heard---well, FIC has problems in general. Albatron, I'm not sure of, since I've not worked with them before.

I would check the IDE cables to make sure that none of them have any breaks in the molding around each wire. I had a friend have major issue getting the system to boot with this exact problem.

If that doesn't fix it, I'd look into replacing the motherboards with the same one first (if you haven't done so already) and failing that, a different motherboard altogether.
 
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