PC won't boot after trying to fix broken pins on HDD

Dan90

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When i power on my pc, the fans turn on, then off, then back on again without any boot.

I built my computer 6-7 years ago. The motherboard is MSI X58 Pro, CPU Intel i7, RAM Corsair xms3, graphics HIS HD 5850 TURBO, and for memory my primary is Samsung SSD 129gb 840 series and secondary is WesternDigital HDD VelociRaptor 600gb (the problem child).

Years ago when I bought the HDD I must have broken the pin connector on the controller board of the drive. But I managed the fix it and have been running in smoothly ever since. Recently, my computer decided that it can no longer read it as I kept getting disk errors and losing information, eventually leading up to nothing on the HDD being accessable at all. So I took the computer case off and tried to fiddle with the connection if the pins. After applying superglue so that the pin bracket would actually finally connect, I tried rebooting. Now the PC doesn't boot. I've tried disconnecting the HDD and it still won't boot.

Can anyone help me with both of these issues?
 

010010

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The superglue might block a connection if it seeped between something, did it get on the motherboard at all?. And you should definatly not be fiddling with the pins of a failing hard drive to get it to work. Also you said the SSD is the main drive so i presume you have the OS on there?
 

Dan90

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I made sure that the superglue didn't get on anything besides the plastic brackets on the pin connectors. I even used acetone and a q-tip to wipe off the head of the pins incase any glue was preventing conductivity. And yes, my SSD has my operating system. The PC booted up fine when I disconnected the HDD and before I tried fixing it with super glue.