(Lamer)Problems Installing new Thermaltake Armor Cage

jaure · TweakNOOB Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

Hi to all :)

First say hello everybody,... and now my big problem
Ive bought a new cage for my pc.A really cool Thermaltake ARmor

, i take my Asus p4p800 Mothboard and put on the new cage, and i put cage leds as the mBoard manual says....

Ok i reboot the pc,and everythings looks go well,but the bios doesnt recognice any IDE device,(HDD,DVD ... ) ,I have an Ata HDD and bios detect it without any problem,...i dont know what is wrong.. i know its a lame question

but im a newbie.... PLEASE I NEED HELP I CANT LIVE WIthout my PC :

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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

ok i need a little more info....first off...do you mean case by cage?

Which led's are you speaking of are you sure all your power is plugged in properly..... and all your IDE's?

All same components?
even psu?
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gmoney · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject:

like t|h said make sure EVERYTING is plugged in... and correctly plugged in...

and then u mite want to go into bios.. and go to the ide section... and see if u can detect the drives manually or something
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sickofsoyo · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject:

also, make sure it was installed correctly. A little bit of static can cause some real annoying and serious problems. next check your slave\ master jumper pin setting on the drive. If that doesn't work pull the cable check to make sure it is lined up all the way (no bent pins) and reinstall it. If you still have trouble, go into the bios and do what gmoney said.

I had a problem with static one time and I kept getting random beeps high and low pitched, long and short when I played games and I started getting heat. I drove me freaking insane

then I decided to rearrange cable and I touched the mobo and shock

That made me almost soil myself, then I powered on, the video was blurred, then it went normal and WALA no beeping Very Happy

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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Yeah, I think he means CASE.......although, he's the second person to call it a cage.......are we missing something?

One bit confuses me. First you say the BIOS won't recognize any drives, but then in the next sentence you say it DOES see the hard drive. Which is it?

Check the obvious:

Make sure your IDE cables are plugged in, the right way (they only can go one way, so if you have it backwards, i.e. mobo end plugged into the HDD, it won't work), and right side up.

Make sure your power is plugged in properly. Lord knows how many times I've assembled a PC, closed everything up, and booted, only to find that I hadn't plugged the power into the hard drives.......

Like the others said, make sure your jumpers are set properly (unless it's SATA, then you don't need to set them).

Now, if it's WINDOWS that won't see the drives, that's a whole different can of worms, usually fixed by a reinstall of Windows.

A little more info would be useful, though........does the BIOS see the drives, but Windows doesn't?

Another potential problem is when you installed the motherboard. Did you use JUST the standoffs needed for your board, or did you put all of them in? If you did, or have one in the wrong place (touching the back of the board) you're probably shorting your motherboard out. ONLY use the ones needed for the mounting screws, not ALL of them. Common mistake, believe it or not........
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Spiegel · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:27 pm Post subject:

To fnf - he said it wouldn't recognize his IDE drives, but his HDD is SATA, and it is recognized.
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gmoney · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:37 pm Post subject:

i kinda like the term cage

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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:42 am Post subject:

it sounds like you have one mean computer when you have to put into a cage!
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