So get this. I decide to build a nice, new rig with my tax returns a few months ago. I had a nasty HDD Crash and lost everything, and I wanted a whole new system.
It looks beautiful. It's quiet. It runs really cool. It has tons of pretty neon lights. The BIOS is the most feature-rich I've ever seen.
Too bad I've yet to use the new rig.
The second I built in, I didn't get any power to any of my drives. No power to the optical drives. No power to the IDE HDD. No power to the SATA drive.
I unplug all the fans, lights and unnecessary junk, like the LED temp display. I try to power just one hard drive and one optical drive. Nothing. This is with a nice 530W Aspire power supply.
So I assume the drives are either fried again, or the power supply is bad.
I get all the hard drives tested, and swapped out. I test the power supply which seems good, and RMA it.
I get another power supply. Nothing.
So I buy a brand new XION and the same problem.
If the drives aren't bad, and the power supply isn't bad, how come the drives can't get power.
A buddy of mine took my IDE HDD and plugged it in his system. My MP3's are still there, and it works just fine.
I don't forsee any way the motherboard can cause drives to not receive power, but I'm at my wits end. I'm about to RMA my Motherboard, cry and lose geek points. I have the worst luck with my desktops. And I paid money to fix and maintain computers for a living. I can fix any computer in the world except my own.