No Post - please help - desperate

I offered to put in a second hard drive (to be slave) for a friend.

Chaintech CT-6ATA4, with Intel 700? I think, 128MB Ram.

Having attached all cables etc, The Red Power LED lights on on the mobo, but will not power up/post. No fan activity nothing.

I have cleared CMOS, tried a different power supply, and now have no idea what to do. He is now blaming me for breaking his computer. This should be simple!!

Any ideas - should the LED be red (on my boards its nomally green). Please Help

Have you checked the jumpers on the hard drives?

its fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok fixed it

stripped it down to just Mobo, memory, cpu and grpahics card,

unbelievably it was the F*****g power on switch - a crappy plastic design by Evesham computers!! I thought it seemed strange so I used the swicth from a nother pc and lo and behold it worked.

God this stuff is annoying - you go through every thought - memeory/cpu/ jumper settings on HD/Mobo etc etc

only to be let down by a cheap bit of plastic - now if only I'd checked that first

I would tell your friend that if He is going to blame you for breaking his machine when you are doing him a favour, then maybe you should be paid for helping him out.

That should make him think twice before he speaks next time


And.... Welcome to the Forums!

Thanks very much -

What makes it worse is it was my inlaws!!!!!! Hence my predicament - anyway all solved now!!