Ben, I think this is a power issue with the HD. I've had floppy disk
drives cause my systems not to POST! I believe a short in a power
connector trips a safety feature in the switching power supply making
it not send power. I forget though if it only sends power to the
motherboard but not peripherals. I seem to remember it's the whole
thing.
See if there's a short early in the traces going from the HD power
connector, or how about trying to transplant the drive electronics
with an exact one from an auction site or something? The connection
to the servo and voice coils are usually are made with quick
connections and phenyl(?) cable. I think a search for the drive model
number might turn up some hits.
Mario
>Brings up a related question for me:
>
>I plugged my printer into my fiancee's computer and restarted the
>computer. It never rebooted. No POST, no video. Did I mention this
>was the week she had to do a project in Office 2000? (The community
>college teaches a class *about* Office 2000 -- or else I'd have showed
>her how to use OpenOffice.org.)
>
>I've finally had a chance to build her a new computer. (She used my
>computer for the project.) Everything's going well. I power down, add
>her old hard drive on secondary IDE, and... no POST, no video!
>
>How on earth can a hard drive make a computer not boot? I'm guessing
>that if I put a different hard drive in her HP, it'd at least POST.
>
>And is there any hope of getting this old Quantum full-height drive to
>work again, or does this sound like a doorstop?
>
>Ben
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