Ok maybe its aliens… I purchased this drive as a second SATA drive for my ASUS CG5275 DESKTOP. after two days I am still beating my head against a wall. I shut down the PC, opened the case, added a new SATA 2.0 cable to an open SATA port on the MB, found a spare SATA power cable and closed up the box.
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On power up nothing happened, no splash screen, no windows not even the POST screen. OK so I opened up the case disconnected everything and tried again. Now it wouldnt boot up even with the original configuration. Well not for about 30 mins ? THen magically it came back and worked fine. As soon as I add anything (either SATA cable alone ? or Power cable alone connected to the drive… it takes another 30 minute walk with no activity…
I tried the same SATA cable and power connector that was connected to the DVD drive with the same frustrating results. ANyone have any thoughts ? PLEASE JUMP IN…
THe ASUS CG5275 has an intel i5 running at 3.2.ghz 8GB of memory and running Windows 7. THe BIOS is up to date.
