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no, thats for intel. My power supply is not the problem i beleive, its ATX and i have always used those cases to build systems. Theres is only 1 conector from power supply to mother boards, and thats always been like that since i build amd system with asus mother boards.

power suply is 300 wts, and thats what its suposse to be for those boards.

Sorry i should of said i tryed with a working IDE cable from a working system. same result

First of all, Ive been building system for a while now, im pretty much always building the same stuff (AMD with asus mother boards, maxtor HD etc ...) The system im building now is pretty much similar to the other one ive build, but the mother board is a newer one that im trying. The system has : Motherboard(Asus A7V266E VIA KT266A 3DDR 5PCI 1AGP W/SC ATX Soc) processor (AMD THUNDERBIRD SOCKET A-1.33G 266MHz) maxtor 20 gig HD 256 DDR RAM GeForce II MX400 64 BIT 64MB PWS ATX 300 wts This system is pretty much empty, with the minimum. Heres what happend. When i start the system, the hard drive simply dosen't start, there is power going to it, but its not spining like it should. Get this, I remove the IDE cable, so the hard drive only has the power connected, and when i boot, the harddrive start spining. I have utility at job, to test HD, and its fine, my ram is fine to, i tested it. Geforce also. Its gotta be link to processor or board. Ive been building dozen of system lately, and i simply can't see what ive done wrong. Its a new board, but its still Asus, so i should not have any problems. Ive been building the A7A a lot, is there a difference in the boards ? Also, on the processor, there was a little orange sticker on it, im not to sure why, maybe the price was on it or something, i guess i could of removed it, but i diden't Any1 know if that could be an issue. Also there is no 3.5 drive installed. Any advice is welcome thank you