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 I need help (technical) with installing my CD-R drive!
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Elite Bodybuilder 
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I have a CD-R drive that I just looked into installing and have found out that the motherboard has only 3 places to connect and those are all taken ( hard drive, floppy, and CD rom. If anyone is confused I am talking about the 40pin cable. In the instruction manual it says that a "Y" connector may be needed. I went to the only place that was open tonite (Comp (Chump) USA) and the guy told me I just needed to "daisy chain" connect it. What this is supposed to involve is to have the primary (going to the hard drive) go to the cd rom and then to the cd-r drive. Im a slo-mo when it comes to anything technical so any help is appreciated. ------------------     | ||
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Freak 
Posts: 1890 |
if you look on the cable going to your cdrom you should have another connector about halfway between both ends. thats the daisychain basically. no need to buy a different cable, you should have the right one already. its just basically using the same cable. now you want to make sure you set your cdr up to be the slave drive and the regular cdrom as the primary. you do this by jumper settings. your cdrom should already be the primary so its up to checking out the book and seeing the setting for your new cdr. ------------------ | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 1412 |
Yeah bignate is right. You should be all set with the IDE ribbons. You should have at least 2 connectors on each IDE ribbon. These are the ones that your hard drive and cd-rom are connected to. You should have 2 IDE ribbons. One should be for your hard drive(s) and the other should be for your cd-rom and/or cdr. Just make sure you have your cd-r and cd-rom on the same ribbon. You DON'T want your cd-rom or cd-r using the same ribbon your hard drive is on. The floppy is on a totally different ribbon alltogether so don't worry about it. When I say ribbons I'm talking about the flat cables running from the motherboard to the IDE devices(ie. cd-rom, hdd, etc...) unless of course you're running SCSI. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder 
Posts: 145 |
in some cases your ribbon cable may not have 2 connectors on it, in that case you will need to buy another cable that has 2 connectors on it. also make sure you have enough power connections or you will need to buy a "Y" adapter for it. ------------------ |
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