...multible painful attempls over a range of two days have lefted me with nothing but a reformatt. Before the reformatt, i had 5 drivies. I tryed installing the 6th one, and rebooting it. the windows logo came up (over a 5 min boot >.<) and then went black. i tryed multiple steps to fixing it and fault terribly. So, this lefted me with the only option i could do. a Reformat. I did the reformat and stepped me up one more inch to nothing. I got the destop now and i can even see the new drives now, but. but! one of the old harddrives is missing one. 4 sata 2 ata All of the satas can be seen. but only one atas can be seen. What should i do? i can't get all 6 harddrives. (what i've tryed: - switching ide cables - switching jumper on the harddrives - changing BIOs - Updating BIOs - updating RAID manager - managing all cables (in the case) once again, im stucked. any help would be nice. Thanks
6 hd's is a lot and probaly the 6th one u installed put the power supply over its max wattage. i would try to do w\o the 6th HD maybee buy or trade a friend for a very big HD so u only have to deal with 1 had but if u dont want to try buying a bigger Power supply mabee one with 850 watts
850 is way overboard unless yuo ahve a really packed system. List the specs as a merely 550 would do fine.
850 is to high, try these links to see if current psu is alright. http://www.vbutils.com/power.asp http://www.journeysystems.com/power_supply_calculator.php http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp
if anyone is interested in this subject, i have an answer. I found out that my motherboard (only a year old. asus p5gd1) supports only 5 hard drives, though i don't know about ide or sata pci controllers. if they can add more hard drives or not after the 5 limits. i hear maybe 3 months ago that nvidia can support 6 hard drives, but by now they probably have motherboards out there that can support more hard drive (i would think at least)
