Hello,
I built a desktop recently to upgrade from my old one. I had 4 HDD in the new computer and 4 more inside an external enclosure, my case has 8 3.5" bays. So I wanted to move all drives inside the case. PSU only has 6 SATA power ports, so I got a Molex to SATA power adapter. Hooked everything back up and computer would never boot, worked great before hooking up the 4 additional drives. Working backwards, it will boot until I connect the Molex to SATA adapter to a Molex cord on the PSU. It gets to the boot screen, but I can't get into BIOS and windows won't ever start loading with that Molex to SATA connected to the PSU. Is this just a bad cord? Why would that prevent the computer from getting past boot screen?
I built a desktop recently to upgrade from my old one. I had 4 HDD in the new computer and 4 more inside an external enclosure, my case has 8 3.5" bays. So I wanted to move all drives inside the case. PSU only has 6 SATA power ports, so I got a Molex to SATA power adapter. Hooked everything back up and computer would never boot, worked great before hooking up the 4 additional drives. Working backwards, it will boot until I connect the Molex to SATA adapter to a Molex cord on the PSU. It gets to the boot screen, but I can't get into BIOS and windows won't ever start loading with that Molex to SATA connected to the PSU. Is this just a bad cord? Why would that prevent the computer from getting past boot screen?