hi i just recently changed my mother board from a gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R to GA-EP31-DS3L because of physical damage to the motherboard(the pins in the cpu socket bent and the warranty doesnt cover it). Although on the Ep35 everything went on and worked.Since i changed the mother board its not been the same the hard drive and the dvd drive/writter have not come on.I have not changed the power supply and the previous board Ep 35 was more power consuming ( i think).I have also tried diffrent psu's (although they were all 400w and bellow which is not good enough.300w is the least the board can take safely) could i have damaged the dvd writer and hard drive? i have already tried removing the battery and everything else is on and working properly the cpu fan, system fan, graphics card,lan card,processor and mother card E8400 Core 2 duo Aztec cooler GA-EP31-DS3L 8600 gt 750w ez cool and 400w s-tek psu
You do realise you can fix bent pins in the socket with a mechanical pencil and some care? Using bad PSUs like you're currently doing could easily damage any hardware. EZ Cool are a terrible PSU manufacturer as well, and their 750w units usually crap out after 150W. Get a proper PSU like the Corsair HX 520W before you do anything else.
Indeed, check this, check the IDE cable. As for them being damaged, it's possible, perhaps unlikely, but to avoid it happening again, by a decent PSU, and I genuinely mean this, cheap PSUs like EZCool or S-Tek can not only damage components, they can catch fire. Don't think it doesn't happen, it happened to me, and a hard disk (and all its data) was one of the things I lost as a result.
check what about the ide cable? by the way my hard drive and dvd writer are sata but ive got and adapter ide to sata for my psu. the ezcool has sata and ide cables s-tek only ide so sata to ide is needed
