chunky3 wrote:
Computer A: Is my computer. I unplugged my CD drive after I bought a new video card because there was no room for my card. The card is above the slot for my CD drive on the motherboard so there is no way I can get that in. I recently needed to use a CD so I man powered in the cable connecting to the power supply. At the time I was careless and forgot all about the cable leading to the motherboard and was wondering why my computer wasn't reading any disks. Moving on
Weird, I would have to see a picture of this, I dont see a video card blocking an IDE or SATA port, since the cables are flat, you can take out the card, hook up the IDE cable, then put the card back on.
chunky3 wrote:
Computer B: My brothers computer. He also had to unplug his CD drive for some reason but plugged it back in afterwards when he was done doing whatever he was doing. He then said his computer wasn't reading his CD's either. I thought he left one of his cables unplugged also so today I opened up his case and checked, but all the cables were in. So that makes me believe if I take out my video card to plug in the cable, then my computer still wont read my CD's.
He plugged it in wrong, see below
chunky3 wrote:
Computer C: I asked my dad to bring home my old computer that he has at his work right now because I needed it for school. Instead he brought me 2 computers he had lieing around, Computer C and computer D. They are both very old computers, Windows 98. Before turning on the computer, I opened up the case and for some strange reason I saw that the CD drive was not connected to anything. So I plug it in to all 3 places (power supply and motherboard x2). I turned on the computer and it was doing some black screen thing and had some information and said press F1 to continue. One of the information that I noticed was "WARNING:Battery low 0.00V". I don't really know if the no battery thing is a problem though. I press F1 and computer starts up normally. I put in a CD and it doesn't read it(sounds like computer B). Sometimes when I turn on the computer, the light on the monitor will be orange and not green, like it's not connect to anything (because of the battery?), and sometimes it's fine. If the light is orange, I turn the computer off and on and it starts up normally.
You said the "motherboard x2" which sounds like you took an IDE cable (PATA cable) which has 3 connectors on it, 2 at each end, and one about 2/3 down the cable, and hooked it all up wrong. 1 cable is for the board (the one all by itself) the other 2 are for any IDE device (cd rom or hard drive). Sounds like you plugged the motherboard end of the cable into your rom, then plugged the other 2 connectors to the board, which is backwards. Plug 1 end to the board, the other end to a device, leave the middle connector unplugged (unless you need 2 cd roms or something).
The battery warning is telling you the battery on the board is dead. The battery is there to save bios settings (and time) while a computer is unplugged, you can take a battery out of any of the other computers and put it in there, its the round watch battery, easy to change.
chunky3 wrote:
Computer D: I open it up and everything looks fine on the inside. I turn it on and it starts fine but it will just show the background and nothing else. No toolbar, no icons, no right click availabe, no nothing. It just shows the background and you can't do anything.
Re install operating system
chunky3 wrote:
Computer E: This computer is also really old, it was in my garage for a while. As I was carying the computer i heard something loose inside moving around and open it up. I see (im so bad at this) a small box looking thing (Which I think is the CPU's fan, it has 3 fans, 1 on the top and 2 on the sides.) not plugged into anything. It has 3 wires coming out of it; 1 is very small with 4 pin holes and I plugged it into the motherboard. The other 2 are 4 bigger pin holes that I connected to the power supply. I turn on the computer and nothing shows on the monitor, the light stays orange as if nothing is plugged into it.
Take a picture of this loose thing, then throw this computer away... lol
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blah thats nothing, i built houses for pirates, then do pirating myself. Then I shoot my self and perform bullet removal surgery on myself. After that I go to boot camps to train kids to kill. Then i go and fight on the Iraq war for both sides. After all i go later and drink some 7up cause ill be thirsty as shit.
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