And now my PC will not boot with my 2 dvd drives connected.

The drives and the hard drive are connected to the motherboard (Gigabye GA 8N SLI) via a long thin grey cable that looks like a peice of licqorice. All tho three are connected to the new PSU (a Trust 570W pro) via white connectors (molex, is that the right name?).

The computer boots when just the hard drive is connected, but not when the DVD drives are. If I connect them I the computer tales a loooong time to detect my HD (when it posts) and I get a message that says:

Mediashield BIOS ver. xxx copyright 2005 Nvidia Corp.
Detecting array...

and the compuetr hangs.

Ive ben told to disable RAID in the bios, this has had no effect. I have also tried ressetting the CMOS.

Can anyone help plz?

Hello, and welcome to PCHF!

Try switching off the power supply, unplugging the power cable from the computer, and then pushing the power button 10 times. This will reset the BIOS. Plug the cable back in, switch on the power supply and see if it boots.

If not, go into the BIOS and check if there's a "Quick Boot" option that is turned off. If t is, turn it on.

Are you saying that the IDE cable is connecting 3 devices to one single IDE port, is one on a separate cable?

The DVD drives are attached to the same long flat, thin cable which plugs into 1 port on the motherboard. The HD is on another simliar, but seperate cale.

Tried the power button thing: no luck.
Also there is no quick boot option in the BIOS.

I was thinking about the (molex?) white connectors, whether I had put them back in to my drives in the right order, but I get the feeling they are just power connectors and it does'nt really matter which order they go in. Any one of them seems to make the HD work.

It does not matter which Molex connectors attach where; they're just power cables.

Are you familiar with jumper settings? It seems to me you don't have the correct jumper settings for your DVD drives and/or your Hard Drive. If you're unsure, please post the make/model of your drives.



The Hard Drive should have the jumper settings on a sticker like the above. The DVD drives may too.

Maxtor 6L2O0PO Diamondmax 10, as for the drives, there are no labels on them (just says gigabyte on the front), and as the computer is not detecting them I cant see them in the bios to get the model..

For your hard drive, find the jumpers (between the molex slot and the IDE cable slot).

Please set it as "Master."

See if that will work, or at least make the BIOS detect it.