Guru needed

speed32219 Wrote:As suggested earlier, check for an update to your Bios. Also check Bios settings, IDE, AHCI, etc. Read the manual about populating both stata and IDE devices and what settings should be selected in the Bios. Check for Bios update and read manual is the last resort. Sould be the first, but we make exceptions.

I always read the manual first some don't but I do and I must have tried every possible setting for IDE and SATA there's only a couple in any case AFAIK it should be auto detected in IDE mode and AHCI which it did in my other system but I've tried both in this instance

I'm becoming more convinced its a power problem as I just tried the optical drive in my other system with only the power connected and I could open and close the drive tray as soon as I powered on and while in bios this has been the behaviour of every drive I have owned, I don't believe that opening and closing the drive tray is dependant on anything other than power from the PSU ?

I'm going to take the board out the case today and power it up just to rule out a short somewhere although its not doing anything I would normally associate with a short

It sounds like it's almost certainly the power supply to me. DO you have a spare PSU or can you swap the PSU out of some other PC for testing?

Yeah I've got a couple from ages ago but I wouldn't trust them they were very cheap for cheap builds the ones I have being used have to much stuff connected

I'll do an out of case test tomorrow if I get a chance didn't have time today if I get the same result I will contact corsair get their opinion but I'm pretty sure I should be able to open the drive tray at post and in bios with only power connected

look in BIOS for power meter readings on the +12V rails or check the yellow & black wires in a molex connector using a multimeter. Sounds like it's the power supply from what you are describing. Also may want to plug the modular connections into other ports since this may use a different (and hopefully non-defective) voltage rail.

Just an update ripped the PSU out of my other system and everything worked as it should strange as the +12V was reading fine in bios, at least its got a 7 year warranty although I don't think they make a HX450 Modular now

Amount of time I wasted trying different ports and changing SATA modes didn't really want to build three times either

Anyway thanks for the suggestions