- Jun 11, 2012
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Hi everyone,
So I made kind of a REALLY silly mistake late last night. I'm an experienced builder having built about 30 systems now, but I screwed up here. What happened was I was changing out a PSU in my computer (the Corsair CX600m to the EVGA NEX750G). Everything went seemingly smooth, but when I turned on my system, the optical drive and the SSD were not found by the bios. I shut off the computer and had a look inside again. This is where I found out it all went wrong:
Both the SSD and the Optical drive were connected to the PSU on the same SATA cable, but that cable was plugged into the PSU slot labeled PATA instead of the slot labeled SATA!! I assume that the PATA slot outputs a different voltage than the SATA slot. Can anyone confirm that? Did I toast these drives? They are plugged into the correct SATA slot on the PSU now and are still not being picked up.
I plugged in a backup drive I had lying around to the same cable and same SATA port on the motherboard and it's being picked up just fine, but the other two seem to be toast.
So I made kind of a REALLY silly mistake late last night. I'm an experienced builder having built about 30 systems now, but I screwed up here. What happened was I was changing out a PSU in my computer (the Corsair CX600m to the EVGA NEX750G). Everything went seemingly smooth, but when I turned on my system, the optical drive and the SSD were not found by the bios. I shut off the computer and had a look inside again. This is where I found out it all went wrong:
Both the SSD and the Optical drive were connected to the PSU on the same SATA cable, but that cable was plugged into the PSU slot labeled PATA instead of the slot labeled SATA!! I assume that the PATA slot outputs a different voltage than the SATA slot. Can anyone confirm that? Did I toast these drives? They are plugged into the correct SATA slot on the PSU now and are still not being picked up.
I plugged in a backup drive I had lying around to the same cable and same SATA port on the motherboard and it's being picked up just fine, but the other two seem to be toast.
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