Re: firing up a SATA hard drive

attilathehun1 wrote:
Ok all of you, I'm not talking to you, it's the other hostile greek. I like greeks, and I don't have anything against them, I'm just using it so you can ID him.
Ok, I'm at the point now that I have the Hard Drive LED light and there are orange and white wires going to the front panel connectors. One is positive and one negative, my guess is the orange is the positive and white the negative. The only reason I'm asking here is because the, wtf do you call it, CI connector that makes sure if you open the side panel without you knowing its a safety device against rip-offs. Wait let me check, brb. Yeah, it's CI and those wires are black and white. I figure black is usually negative. On the power connector the wires are red and black and I figure that's red positive and black negative, doy! What time is it? Doy!
Ok, I'm ready to put the thermal grease on the CPU chip and the Zalman cooler, but I want a gopher to be here so I can do it, but it's 12:45 am now and I can't find one handy. Alright, I can see that there are some people here that do know the answers better than I do, and I'm not that high on my horse to admit it. Ok, maybe I'll wait for your response on the CPU cooler, no one gave a correct response, and on the orange and white hard drive LED connector, positive or negative?
Any more help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, attilathehun1

(Computer case tower is a VA8000, for anyone keeping score at home.)

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Upload/Product/Download/87a687ac-3645-4d98-8125-5c4a99f98b0b/VA8000_en_0426.zip

You still aren't "getting with the program".

Your first priority, is to get the motherboard and hardware to respond.
Not to waste time with the Chassis Intrusion cable from the tower.

If a motherboard has provision for chassis intrusion, there are pins
on the motherboard, with a jumper across them. The jumper keeps the
chassis intrusion "safe", so it won't interfere with anything.

In other words, if you leave the chassis intrusion function alone
on the motherboard, then you'll never have to worry about it. If
you leave the "CI" cable dangling in the tower, and don't use it,
then no issues will occur. I never hook up Chassis Intrusion on
my cases, and always leave the jumpers and that header alone.

Remember what I told you before. The minimum to operate the computer,
is the two pin Power switch cable. You don't need to hook up a lot of
crap.

What we need to hear is "I can see the BIOS screen" from you. That
proves you'd done something right. And then it is worth spending time
on the trivial stuff. And to see the BIOS screen, you don't even need
to hook up a hard drive or an optical drive. You can save yourself a
lot of time, just hooking up the minimum amount of stuff that will
draw a picture on the screen.

What point is there in worrying about chassis intrusion, when nothing
is working ? What point is there in hooking up hard drives or optical
drives, if you haven't even seen a BIOS screen yet ? This is the hardware
you can hook up, to get some testing done.

Motherboard.
CPU and heatsink/fan.
Video card (or if the motherboard has a VGA connector, just use that one)
Computer monitor (to see if the BIOS will appear).
Power supply.
Power switch cable (goes to the PANEL header)
Computer case speaker (to listen for error beep codes).
Keyboard (to work in the BIOS).
Mouse (well, you hooked up the keyboard, so why not).

And how about saving some of the answers you get here, in a folder ?
If you refer back to the answers you are getting, then gradually,
as time goes by, you won't have to ask the same questions again.

If you cannot get the above list of hardware, to make the BIOS
screen appear, then no further wiring work need be done. If the
BIOS screen makes an appearance, then you can carry on with the
questions.

HTH,
Paul
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