film Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Hello, well the other day i had to format one of my hard drives so i unpluged the one that was in and repluged my new HDD. I pluged the IDE in fine then when i pluged in the power i kind of messed up, pluged it the wrong way round ( i know they will not fit but i mean the pins touched and a spark came off them ) :oops: . so i have put the 12 to the 5 and 5 to 12 !! .... and my PC wont turn on now, im not sure why any one know what the source of the problem could be ? I hope its the PSU :? -Thanks, Junior Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 oops would be an understatement... why did you try to swap out the drive while the power was on and flowing?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uber_tom Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Yeah, I’ve pulled that one, the HDD was well and truly dead and the PSU tripped, but once it had cooled down it booted fine. The only spare disk I had at the time was 240 MB. I just managed to squeeze on win98, then I had to compress the damn thing to fit the drivers on. I had 6 mb of free space left for web browsing. It was loads of fun, it was just after I first got broadband installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 hopefully it just blew the fuse in the plug .. change it if not your psu is probably bad nw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 oops would be an understatement... why did you try to swap out the drive while the power was on and flowing?! Yeah forgot to turn power off :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Yeah forgot to turn power off :( Which is another way in which SATA improves on IDE, you can unplug and plug in drives while the computer is on (this is also known as hot swapping). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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