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The green light stays on the hdd until the cpu recognize the drive then it goes out and never boots the drive, but will contine to sound like its spining, also tryed on another computer and same thing could this be a power prob or the hdd itself
mine is having the same problem and i have not been able to figure it out yet any suggestions???? mine is having the same problem and i have not been able to figure it out yet any suggestions????
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open the CPU and check whether it properly connected (both the wires sata cable and power cable) then check in BIOS. is it detected if it is then change the boot device priority.. if its not detected then try to swap the wires with optical drive.. still not then change the HDD
Remove cmos battery and then replace it after 3 mins or so, Try rebooting If no luck, remove ram modules one at a time and retest unplug all but hdd and power connector to mobo, cpu and hard drive and retest.
failing that, could be a surge of electricity has damaged your mobo
Disconnect everything from the motherboard except the power supply connections and cpu fan. Install one stick of RAM and connect your monitor. Then try starting up. See if you get any BIOS boot messages. This will tell you that the board and processor are okay.
With what you say you've tried already, I'm thinking you might have a bad processor. Most every other problem would result in some kind of error like POST beep codes or messages on screen. If the system still doesn't boot with the bare minimum parts installed, replace the processor.
Sounds like a bad motherboard, I try resetting the bios , removing everything but the video , could be a bad power supply too (if you have one jump the wires in there as a test). you can buy those dell MBs cheap on fleabay.
Eric
I had the same problem - green light on power cord but when plugged in the green light would go off and the hard drive would do nothing. I took it into Geek Squad finally and it turned out that the problem was hard drive casing, which I had to have replaced.
I went throught this and it is really silly. The P5N-T motherboard has a problem with some of the new energy efficient CPUs. The fix was to insert an older CPU and upgrade the bios and then it would recognize the new CPU. If you happen not to have an older 775 CPU laying around (most people do not), it might be easiest to return it and get a different board - or maybe the store can upgrade the bios for you.
mine is having the same problem and i have not been able to figure it out yet any suggestions????
If i format it wont it delete my info on it????
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