I have found my IDE cable pins were bent

[RJTech]

Hi ,
I have recently found that my IDE Cable pins were bent. I disconnected my ide cable and found what maybe my problem for my hardrive disk errors.... at the end of the ide cable there were two pins that were bent to right. I had tried to put my ide cable back but couldnt.... so I rebent the cables and my ide cable fitted in fine....

Months ago I had taken out my HD(Maxtor 30gb) and put it in a computer I had found 4 months ago and repaired it.... My hardrive had worked fine in the swapped comp..... but in the oringinal pc it wouldnt even boot up my pc.......

Oringinal origin of HD(Maxtor 30 gb)
Eagle 300 watt PowerSupply
Sis 730 Chipset 830CF Mobo by Jetway
Amd Duron 1.2ghz CPU Socket 462
128 MBs of SDRAM Ram no brand name on stick :confused:
64mb Nivida g-force MX 400 SE video card AGP slot 1x/2x
30gb Maxtor HD IDE conection
Intergrated Audio Sound
Modem 56k V.92 Lunar Express
Windows 98 Second Edition

Computer founded 4 months ago
Bestec 250W PowerSupply
Amd XP 2000 CPU
ECS L7Vmm Rev 1.0
512 MB of DDR RAM NO BRAND:confused:
Seagate 80gb HD IDE Hardrive
Radeon 9000 grahpics card
Inergrated audio
Linkysis Fast Ethernet Adapater
Windows XP SP2

I swapped my power supply and my HD and but not my RAM or CPU..... so I am thinking it could be my motherboard or ram or cpu????

[Lespaul20]

I have recently found that my IDE Cable pins were bent. I disconnected my ide cable and found what maybe my problem for my hardrive disk errors.... at the end of the ide cable there were two pins that were bent to right. I had tried to put my ide cable back but couldnt.... so I rebent the cables and my ide cable fitted in fine....

I'm assuming you mean the pin on the drive were found bend, right?

Have you tried starting the your new computer as is?

[edfair]

This is a fairly common occurance. It will happen every time if you let the connector twist as it comes out. The bent pins generally won't cause drive errors because the connector won't fit down enough to make minimal contact with adjacient pins and the hard drive ends up being unreachable.

[Cricket]

You're saying that the "found" computer will boot up with the 30GB HDD but now when you put the 30GB HDD in the original computer the computer won't boot up? Does it even start up and give you an image on the monitor?

:) Cricket

[RJTech]

You're saying that the "found" computer will boot up with the 30GB HDD but now when you put the 30GB HDD in the original computer the computer won't boot up? Does it even start up and give you an image on the monitor?

:) Cricket


Yes the comp I found works fine with the 30gb HD from the oringinal comp, and the oringinal comp with the 30gb HD does not display anything at all.....

I think I have put this thread in the wrong forum..... its seems to be a general hardware issue!;)

[Cricket]

Does the original computer boot up without the 30GB HDD connected?

:) Cricket

[RJTech]

Does the original computer boot up without the 30GB HDD connected?

:) Cricket

Can I boot it up even without the HD? I havent tried that..... Maybe I can boot from a Windows CD???

[FLG]

Does the original PC get to the POST screen? With or without the HDD connected.