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ninthebin
05-25-02, 10:41 AM
I just been working on a pc, and basically everything worked fine unless you put a caddy in...then it take aaaages to do the POST and when it did it would hang and detect no HDD, yet without caddy hdd = perfect...
another thing was sometimes whilst using the caddy, the pc would turn off...so I came to the conclusion that there was something dodgy about the PSU, I had no others on hand to try out.
but does a caddy drain more power or something stupid like that - cos it was definetly screwing up when the caddy was in it- or was that a dodgy PSU that just happened to screw up with the caddy?
What is the "caddy" you are refering to?
ninthebin
05-25-02, 10:52 AM
erm, removable hard-drives...you know you have the open bays at the front...caddy=the thing the hdd goes into before you slot it into the front of the pc...
I tend to use the word caddy for anything related...but I am talking about HDDs here :)
Simple answer: Don't use the removable HD bay.
ninthebin
05-25-02, 02:17 PM
no offence, but that is a very amatuerish attitude to have about it...surely the best course would be to find out what exactly is causing the problem, and find out what you can do about it...instead of just casting it aside...
think you get into a life of denial going down that road...
Originally posted by ninthebin
no offence, but that is a very amatuerish attitude to have about it...surely the best course would be to find out what exactly is causing the problem, and find out what you can do about it...instead of just casting it aside...
think you get into a life of denial going down that road...
Is it just when you have the tray in, or when you have a hard drive in the tray as well?
ninthebin
05-25-02, 03:56 PM
well I never tried just the tray without the hdd...but the hdd worked just dandy when it was that on its own...no removable bay involved...
So the hard drive works fine when it's directly connected to the IDE port via an IDE cable. ANd when you put the drive in the drive tray, it slows down? Is the IDE port on the motherboard, or on a expansion card? And are you booting from this drive, or from another? And you're sure you've got the hard drive tray completely plugged in and locked (if it has a lock) to make sure it has good connectivity? Do you have another hard drive tray you can swap it out with? If you're not booting from this drive, what happens when you run a speed test on the drive in the tray?
ninthebin
05-25-02, 04:41 PM
right, HDD = connected directly to IDE cable = fine...
now the removable bay connects directly to the IDE as well so its sorta like an extention if you get me...I did try it with another bay to see if that one was broke, yet same thing...also did try it other hdds...but im telling you, through that seemed to drain more power...so do you happen to know whether somehow these things suck up juice alot more?
Originally posted by ninthebin
right, HDD = connected directly to IDE cable = fine...
now the removable bay connects directly to the IDE as well so its sorta like an extention if you get me...I did try it with another bay to see if that one was broke, yet same thing...also did try it other hdds...but im telling you, through that seemed to drain more power...so do you happen to know whether somehow these things suck up juice alot more?
I have a hard drive tray that I don't use very often, but when I was using it, I didn't notice any performance hits. Do you have a spare power supply you could plug just the tray into to find out what happens? Also, boot it up with the tray attached as you normally would, and use both the BIOS and Sandra to check your power.
ninthebin
05-26-02, 07:45 AM
nah, didnt have one to test, I wont be able to get hold of it for a while now, it wasnt that important anyway you see...
but I will be sure to test it with another PSU...
there are about 10-15 other exactly the same PCs around which work fine, so probably the PSU was on its last legs, but the I do remember that the bays did have fans powered off that 12v...so if there was already little power getting to it, IE just enough to get teh HDD going, could it possible that the added strain of supporting the fan also could of just tipped it?
Originally posted by ninthebin
but the I do remember that the bays did have fans powered off that 12v...so if there was already little power getting to it, IE just enough to get teh HDD going, could it possible that the added strain of supporting the fan also could of just tipped it?
That is indeed a very likely scenario. Again, check your voltages in your BIOS if you can, and also in Sandra.
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