laptop won't turn on with hard drive installed

[frank2186]

I got a hold o a Presario 2500 laptop, it will boot to bios but when I put a hard drive in it won't turn on.

 

[Prostar Computer]

Sounds like the Presario has a hold on you, rather.

There could be a short at the sATA connection. Have you tried a different drive?

 

[frank2186]

Sounds like the Presario has a hold on you, rather.

There could be a short at the sATA connection. Have you tried a different drive?

its an ide connector and I have tried 3 different hd's I was thinking the same thing about it having a short

 

[Prostar Computer]

Ah good ol' IDE. You could run a USB live OS, such as Linux, for the time being. If the problem is at the port or the circuitry then there's no easy fix for it, unfortunately.