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Fan runs constantly but monitor goes to sleep

Last answer on May 24, 2009 3:43:40 pm BST Chrisma, on May 12, 2009 12:56:19 am BST 
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Hello,
I recently had my husband add a second hard drive. When he put it back together the (proccessor??)fan continues to run but neither hardrive will not boot up. The monitor says going to sleep. Is it possible that something was tripped as my husband like a dumbo removed the fan to put the harddrive in. I need help please!!!

Thank you!

Configuration: Windows XP Media

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 sharpman, on May 24, 2009 3:43:40 pm BST

Do the hard drives spin up when turned on?
has he checked the jumpers are set correctly?

if they are connected to the same cable, one needs to be set to master and the other one needs to be set to slave. the main hard drive that has the operating system on it should be set to master, the new drive set to slave.

or, alternativeley, connect the hard drives to seperate cables, set the cdrom as slave if connected and the hdd as master.

so on 1 cable should have 1 hard drive set as master
and on the other cable you should have 1 hard drive set as master and a cdrom/dvdrom set as slave.

if these are set wrong, then the computer gets confused and simply won't boot.

The jumpers are on the ends of the drives. there should be a little diagram on the top of the drive indicating how these are set.

   
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