Hi,
im not too sure if this is the correct section to post this in. Mods pls move if there is somewhere else more appropriate.
recently my pc have been turning itself on. i was told this might have been due to a loose connection inside. so i opend it up and practically took everything out and put it back together again. After that instead of turning itself on it would restart when i told it to shut down. i dont know if the 2 are interlinked but i thought id mention both just in case.
i have only had this rig for a few months and have been really happy with it, no problems until now.
today my pc started to actually shut down when i told it to. it was so random, i didnt change anything at all. then i suddenly had a thought, i left a DVD in there and thought maybe it was that. So i tried shutting down with no dvd in the drive and it did restart again! so i shut down with a dvd in the drive and yes it shut down.
i think ever since i had my rig i have always had a dvd in the drive, bf2 dvd, and it has not been empty until recently.
this is how the dvd and hdd drives are connected:
1 x SATA drive as my main HDD connected a a sata socket
1 x DVD RW drive connected to primary IDE as slave
1 x ATA HDD connected to secondary as slave
i connected the ATA to secondary because when i connected it to primary the pc would try to load this instead of the SATA drive.
have i connected it wrong? does anyone know why i need a cd in my drive for the pc to shut down?
also i dont know if this is related or not but when i do shut down it seems like the pc shuts down, i.e. all the fans turn off before the acutal power LED goes off and then the screen turns blank a second later.
any help would be much appreciated.
im not too sure if this is the correct section to post this in. Mods pls move if there is somewhere else more appropriate.
recently my pc have been turning itself on. i was told this might have been due to a loose connection inside. so i opend it up and practically took everything out and put it back together again. After that instead of turning itself on it would restart when i told it to shut down. i dont know if the 2 are interlinked but i thought id mention both just in case.
i have only had this rig for a few months and have been really happy with it, no problems until now.
today my pc started to actually shut down when i told it to. it was so random, i didnt change anything at all. then i suddenly had a thought, i left a DVD in there and thought maybe it was that. So i tried shutting down with no dvd in the drive and it did restart again! so i shut down with a dvd in the drive and yes it shut down.
i think ever since i had my rig i have always had a dvd in the drive, bf2 dvd, and it has not been empty until recently.
this is how the dvd and hdd drives are connected:
1 x SATA drive as my main HDD connected a a sata socket
1 x DVD RW drive connected to primary IDE as slave
1 x ATA HDD connected to secondary as slave
i connected the ATA to secondary because when i connected it to primary the pc would try to load this instead of the SATA drive.
have i connected it wrong? does anyone know why i need a cd in my drive for the pc to shut down?
also i dont know if this is related or not but when i do shut down it seems like the pc shuts down, i.e. all the fans turn off before the acutal power LED goes off and then the screen turns blank a second later.
any help would be much appreciated.