Removed IDE drives and adjusted setup, but wont boot!

Runckle said:

To be honest I haven't got a clue how to check all the voltages.
Is everyone understanding me or am I just being misunderstood. All I have done is taken away the Removable Hard drives (IDE diskettes) and and removed the IDE cable since then the computer wont boot up. I can here the Sata Drive (Diskette) check itself then the blue light comes on then nothing. It doesn't boot startup screen...

I think what is meant here is that you are no longer using the IDE and SATA is pulling power from the PSU differently. I am not an expert on this either. you should be able to test all of the connections from the PSU with a voltage meter and see if it matches specs from the PSU manual(?). there is also a piece of equipment you can buy to plug the PSU up to and it reads all connections at once. it cost about $10-20

psu tester - Google Product Search

Voltmeters:
voltmeter - Google Product Search

I have seen this startup failure before. The comp had two HD's. One was bad and it just spun up and died continously. Since the comp was testing both on startup. it wouldn't work until I disconnected the bad HD.

As someone mentioned before, the best way to test this is to make sure no hard drives are connected at all. this should get to boot screen and say HD not found, but booting from DVD should be possible with this.

If you did this, then the problem could be a bad sata connection if they haven't been used. an old BIOS version thats not compliant with the ssd's? <this would most likely be the culprit if removing all HD's fixes the issue.

Good luck I know you are frustrated, but have patients. There are smart people on this forum that can solve it if its at all possible to solve.

Thorsen said:

Runckle said:

To be honest I haven't got a clue how to check all the voltages.
Is everyone understanding me or am I just being misunderstood. All I have done is taken away the Removable Hard drives (IDE diskettes) and and removed the IDE cable since then the computer wont boot up. I can here the Sata Drive (Diskette) check itself then the blue light comes on then nothing. It doesn't boot startup screen...

I think what is meant here is that you are no longer using the IDE and SATA is pulling power from the PSU differently. I am not an expert on this either. you should be able to test all of the connections from the PSU with a voltage meter and see if it matches specs from the PSU manual(?). there is also a piece of equipment you can buy to plug the PSU up to and it reads all connections at once. it cost about $10-20

psu tester - Google Product Search

Voltmeters:
voltmeter - Google Product Search

I have seen this startup failure before. The comp had two HD's. One was bad and it just spun up and died continously. Since the comp was testing both on startup. it wouldn't work until I disconnected the bad HD.

As someone mentioned before, the best way to test this is to make sure no hard drives are connected at all. this should get to boot screen and say HD not found, but booting from DVD should be possible with this.

If you did this, then the problem could be a bad sata connection if they haven't been used. an old BIOS version thats not compliant with the ssd's? <this would most likely be the culprit if removing all HD's fixes the issue.

Good luck I know you are frustrated, but have patients. There are smart people on this forum that can solve it if its at all possible to solve.

Thanks Thorsen I will have to come back to this tomorrow as the wife beckons me to her chamber! Goodnight all!