Hard disk light permanently on?

nharris1 · Post by **nharris1** » Thu May 22, 2003 7:15 pm

A newly installed transformer and XP fell over!? Bios picks up all periferals, drives, etc. Evenually tried to reload XP, then 2000, then 98 each one would get as far as booting widows install screen and fall over. Noticed the hard drive light is now permanently on (cables on correctly). Maybe a motherboard problem? Any suggestions?

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Thu May 22, 2003 8:06 pm

what do you mean newly installed transformer?

nharris1 · Post by **nharris1** » Thu May 22, 2003 9:23 pm

An Antec True Blue ATX power supply. Looked great but...
I've put the old one back in hoping this might cure the problem but no luck.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Thu May 22, 2003 9:43 pm

is the HDD detected in the bios?

if so

do you have a spare HDD to install a fresh os on?

nharris1 · Post by **nharris1** » Thu May 22, 2003 10:12 pm

Yes, tried that. Got a DOS prompt from a bootable partition but still no success with loading an MSwindows OS. Using the original RU bios with HTP 1.22 but was running RU with the HTP 1.25 when disaster struck.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Thu May 22, 2003 10:24 pm

hmm

you might try doing the "insert" thing to get into safe mode

that.. or you are faced with the same problem i am with my second bp6...

blown caps

nharris1 · Post by **nharris1** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:51 pm

I'll give it a try.

If no luck it'll be out with the board & apply a test meter. If I'm lucky a soldering iron replacement fix.

Thanks.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Fri May 23, 2003 3:12 pm

check for blown caps

Post by **Derek** » Fri May 23, 2003 3:28 pm

Check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables...

Did I metion check the cables?

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Fri May 23, 2003 4:12 pm

hahahahah

or even swap em

i've found bad cables before

Post by **Derek** » Fri May 23, 2003 4:13 pm

kuun wrote:hahahahah

or even swap em

i've found bad cables before

Yeah, that's a good point. There may be a short somewhere along the cable to the case LED.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Fri May 23, 2003 4:16 pm

yeah,
i've found bad floppy cables that effect the HDD performance before

and ide cables that will prevent all drives from detection

nharris1 · Post by **nharris1** » Tue May 27, 2003 8:39 pm

No soldering, system back & up:) A full reload though

The hard disk light is still on during the bios boot but goes off after the operating system kicks in. New (or replacement) cables is a good idea and as the two hard disks were in second hand removable racks I've bought new Lian Li mobile racks.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Wed May 28, 2003 4:25 pm

heh

my hdd light stays on until the 2K spash screen

thats not abnormal

nharris1 · Post by **nharris1** » Wed May 28, 2003 7:03 pm

It was a cable. Back to normal

Thank you for all the advise.

Wolfram · Post by **Wolfram** » Wed May 28, 2003 8:35 pm

Derek wrote:Check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables...

Did I mention check the cables?

How could somebody ever be SO right?

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Wed May 28, 2003 9:15 pm

Wolfram wrote:
Derek wrote:Check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables, check the cables...

Did I mention check the cables?
How could somebody ever be SO right?

Derek's been spot on with this one, several times.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Wed May 28, 2003 9:24 pm