Plugging in my dvd drive shuts down my pc

[dreammachine2010]

For some reason when I switched to a new system, my dvd drive wont take power and it prevents my system from powering on at all. I'm thinking it might be the power supply, as that's the only reason I can think of that it wouldn't boot. I run a 650 watt EVGA now but had a 750 antec, with a 970 msi mobo, phenon 2x6 1090i cpu and a single gtx 970 sc gpu, 16 gigs of ram, and a cooler master hyper 44 cpu cooler.

If the drive is defective could it somehow prevent the pc from powering up? When I plug in other accessories and drives the computer is fine, so I'm thinking it's not a power supply level, perhaps a short or something?

All help welcome and appreciated friends =D

 

[captaincharisma]

which USB port(s) are you connecting it to. the ones on the back of your computer or theones on the front of your computer?

 

[scout_03]

name and model of the dvd drive .

 

[dreammachine2010]

which USB port(s) are you connecting it to. the ones on the back of your computer or theones on the front of your computer?

It's internal, connected to sata

 

[scout_03]

check the sata cable with another one and made sure power connector on it is fully in .

 

[dreammachine2010]

name and model of the dvd drive .

LiteOn 24x internal dvd/cd writer with light scribe

 

[scout_03]

you should be ok with it so do the other test and also try another power cable from psu to it .

 

[RolandJS]

UEFI or BIOS? Is the boot order DVD before HDD? The other posters are spot-on! I'm simply asking about the lesser important things.

 

[dreammachine2010]

you should be ok with it so do the other test and also try another power cable from psu to it .

I've tried several cables from different slots.

 

[dreammachine2010]

UEFI or BIOS? Is the boot order DVD before HDD? The other posters are spot-on! I'm simply asking about the lesser important things.

It's legacy + UEFI, boot order is HDD then DVD

 

[dreammachine2010]

I swapped psus and it worked, then I figured I might try and use one cable from my new psu to use for both dvd and hdd, that worked, couldnt do it before though because the hdd and dvd drive were so far away, so i put them next to each other.

Thanks for all the help everyone!