PC rejecting ATA hard drive

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I have bought a new hard drive, a maxtor 80gb(ata) and went to connect it to my pc. Removed its jumper to make him slave, inserted the data and electric cable in it sockets but the pc its shuting himself down after 1 second i start him up. I tried to start the pc with just this new hard drive(no old one or dvd-rom/floppy) but same thing occured. I can use the pc if new hard drive is removed, my primary hard drive is a 80gb western digital(ata).
Any suggestions? Thank you in advance
 
You don't remove the jumper to make it a slave drive. You reset the jumper to the slave position. You have three choices: Master, slave and cable select.
 
Yea well i tried all the jumper positions, that wasnt the main problem, it cant even start or get to the bios no mather the jumper's position
 
Some manufacturers like Dell use "Cable Select" option. If that's the case - choose "Cable select" on your hard drive.
 
definitely an issue with the jumper, the sticker on the drive should explain the jumper settings
 
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