fresh install ---blooming DVD drive not recognized AGAIN <SOLVED> now broken again.

[Ric Moore]

On 01/18/2012 11:29 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:

> There is no reason why plugging in just the drive should result in no
> beep - however, there are 2 things to think about (as I experienced same
> about 12 months ago): first is that, provided that the HD is functional,
> the PSU's 12-volt (at least one of them, that is) has failed/is failing
> and you need a new PSU;

I do have a new 450 watt supply on this machine, right out of the box. 
But when I plug the SATA drive in, from my server-setup machine, this 
machine won't even boot, or attempt to boot, or post or nothing. DOA. I 
remove the drive, then the machine wakes up, posts and boots. Methinks 
the SATA drive is a dead parrot.

and second have you tried switching off the PSU
> (its on/off switch at the *back* of the computer), waiting for 20-odd
> seconds then switching it back on and then rebooting? I learnt this last
> trick with my wife's system where the mobo is failing as I mentioned to
> you and the only way I could get it to beep was to do what I just
> described.

Oh yeah, I even prayed AND chanted. I'm fresh out of chicken feet, due 
to the Xmas rush on my "Computer Chicken Foot Voodoo and Gris Gris", 
which is a fine line of products for those moments when nothing else 
works. The Federal Communications people bought the last dozen, as they 
don't understand computers OR the Internet. I gave them a discount. :) Ric