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I was installing some SATA hard drives last night, and I may have made a very dumb mistake. Long story short, I have a Zalman ZM600-HP modular power supply, into which I was plugged a four pin SATA power cable that has three SATA power connectors. In the tight spaces of my case, I mistakenly plugged the 4 pin SATA power cable (I'm guessing meant for 3.3V) into the top 4 pins of the 6 pin CPU2 connector on my PSU. I know, I know, very stupid thing to do, but the pins were keyed the same and in the confined spaces of my case I did not see that it was the wrong connector. So, I corrected my mistake, but when I power up my Asus P5B-E does not recognize any of the three SATA drives (One WD 500 GB and two Samsung Spinpoint 1 TB). Am I completely hosed, or is there a chance there's another cause for the drives not being recognized aside from my power supply snafu?

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By the way, nothing smoked, but from what I can tell I'm not sure the drives aren't even spinning up right now. Also, I had two of these drives working with this mobo previously. Anyway, if anyone knows if there are generally fuses and clamp diodes on hard drive supply inputs, that would be great to know. Also, any input on other potential issues would be very helpful. Thanks.


Message edited by awallmtb on 08-07-2009 at 03:47:33 AM
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