Yet another computer upgrade thread

Ravenpoe · May 9, 2014

So, everything is working now, except: my two dvd-rw drives, and the third harddrive I had installed. I think the issue may be a power problem, as sometimes the dvd drives work, but most times they act like they have no powe to them. Perhaps the new motherboard draws more power than my previous one, and my 650watt power supply can't keep up.

GasBandit · May 9, 2014

Ravenpoe said:
So, everything is working now, except: my two dvd-rw drives, and the third harddrive I had installed. I think the issue may be a power problem, as sometimes the dvd drives work, but most times they act like they have no powe to them. Perhaps the new motherboard draws more power than my previous one, and my 650watt power supply can't keep up.

I'd say 650w should be plenty for most rigs unless you have an ungodly monster of a video card.

Ravenpoe · May 9, 2014

ok, only dvd drives aren't working now, when previously they were. No idea why

PatrThom · May 9, 2014

Could be the power connectors aren't seated fully, could also be you have too many devices on a single power rail from the PSU (if it's the kind with multiple rails), but I'm guessing that you have them set to IDE mode in the BIOS when they should be set to ACPI instead (assuming they're all SATA).

--Patrick

GasBandit · May 9, 2014

The eject button should work if they have power, regardless of any data considerations.

Ravenpoe · May 9, 2014

GasBandit said:
The eject button should work if they have power, regardless of any data considerations.

They don't, hence why I think it's a power problem.

PatrThom · May 9, 2014

If they are the kind that have both Molex [ O O O O ] and SATA [---------------] power connections on the back, please make sure you are not using both. Use one or the other, but not both.

--Patrick

Ravenpoe · May 9, 2014

PatrThom said:
If they are the kind that have both Molex [ O O O O ] and SATA [---------------] power connections on the back, please make sure you are not using both. Use one or the other, but not both.

--Patrick

Just sata. I think the problem may be that most of my peripherals are all plugged into the same group of wires coming from the power supply. This case is -tall-, and only one of them would reach up there. I'll pick up an extension and try plugging them into the other.