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**rjfvillarosa** · 06-16-2005, 10:15 PM

If its that old then it is going to be a 40 wire cable (all grey plugs), connect the CD rom to the end grey plug and set the jumper to master, then connect the new DVD to what is the middle grey plug and set the jumper to slave.
When you boot the machine watch the BIOS screen (black screen white lettering) and see if the BIOS is seeing all the drives. All optical drives are very similar and use windows native atapi drivers to make them work so I doubt that old machine will not see the DVD but if it is that old then Windows may have problems writing and reading DVD's through lack of memory.
Try the cabling and jumpering first and we can deal with the windows issues later.

06-16-2005, 10:15 PM	#4
rjfvillarosa Staff Premium Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Cardiff, Wales. UK Posts: 6,105	If its that old then it is going to be a 40 wire cable (all grey plugs), connect the CD rom to the end grey plug and set the jumper to master, then connect the new DVD to what is the middle grey plug and set the jumper to slave. When you boot the machine watch the BIOS screen (black screen white lettering) and see if the BIOS is seeing all the drives. All optical drives are very similar and use windows native atapi drivers to make them work so I doubt that old machine will not see the DVD but if it is that old then Windows may have problems writing and reading DVD's through lack of memory. Try the cabling and jumpering first and we can deal with the windows issues later. __________________ Niwa no niwa ni wa, niwa no niwatori wa niwaka ni wani o tabeta.