Okay, I have a question for you guys out there and it's driving me crazy.
I have a self-built system that's been running reliably for quite some time (AthlonXP 2200+, Nforce2, ATi 9600). I had a Seagate 80GB drive and decided to add a brand new Maxtor 120GB drive.
Well, I took out the drive cage on my Antec case and plugged in the drive (did a Ghost copy of all the partitions from the first drive to the new drive and made the old drive the slave with the new drive being the master).
Well, I place the midtower upright and go to boot. And I can't even post to BIOS. The two CD-ROM drives (actually, 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD-R drive) are alternatively blinking. There's no video. The HD's aren't booting to OS.
So I place the tower on its side. And I can boot up to WinXP and everything's fine. So I shut down and then stand the system upright and I can't boot anymore.
So I'm thinking something must be shorting or something. So I made sure all the screws were tightly screwed and that nothing weird was touching. I bundled the PSU cables together and made sure they weren't touching anything. I tried booting with the drive cage out of the system (seeing if the orientation of the HD's made a difference and it didn't).
But the system refuses to boot standing up, and will continue to function properly when the system is lying down. It is driving me crazy!!!
Ugh, I don't want to have to tear my system apart and rebuild... Any help would be very much appreciated...
I have a self-built system that's been running reliably for quite some time (AthlonXP 2200+, Nforce2, ATi 9600). I had a Seagate 80GB drive and decided to add a brand new Maxtor 120GB drive.
Well, I took out the drive cage on my Antec case and plugged in the drive (did a Ghost copy of all the partitions from the first drive to the new drive and made the old drive the slave with the new drive being the master).
Well, I place the midtower upright and go to boot. And I can't even post to BIOS. The two CD-ROM drives (actually, 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD-R drive) are alternatively blinking. There's no video. The HD's aren't booting to OS.
So I place the tower on its side. And I can boot up to WinXP and everything's fine. So I shut down and then stand the system upright and I can't boot anymore.
So I'm thinking something must be shorting or something. So I made sure all the screws were tightly screwed and that nothing weird was touching. I bundled the PSU cables together and made sure they weren't touching anything. I tried booting with the drive cage out of the system (seeing if the orientation of the HD's made a difference and it didn't).
But the system refuses to boot standing up, and will continue to function properly when the system is lying down. It is driving me crazy!!!
Ugh, I don't want to have to tear my system apart and rebuild... Any help would be very much appreciated...