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01-23-2004, 04:00 PM
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connecting 2 drives to mobo
need a little help here.
i am about power up my first beast and was wondering how i am supposed to connect audio cable to my mobo. i use cd-rw and dvd-rom and there is only one connector on the mobo marked cd 1. the one below says aux 1. i was just gonna connect cd-rw to the cd1 and dvd-rom to the aux 1. am i right? specs of the system: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.2GHz 400FSB Kingston 1GB DDR400 PC3200 nvidia quadro4 900xgl lian li pc-7 al.atx cs. Maxtor 160 GB 7200 RPM Samsung 52x32x52 cd-rw samsung 16xdvd-rom vantec stealth 420W psu viewsonic p220f |
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01-23-2004, 04:48 PM
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Should not matter, but since you will use the DVD for sound more than the CDRW I would connect it to CD1. Your sound will in all probability be picked up thru the IDE cable anyway and you could leave the cables off. I put them on just incase though.
Chas
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01-24-2004, 02:15 AM
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just realized that i can't used either one of the cables because they are not long enough. i powered up my system for the first and everything seems to be running fine except my cd-rw was not detected, only the dvd-rom. i set both of them as cable select hoping i would configure them later but now i might have to go back to set jumpers as master/slave.
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01-24-2004, 02:21 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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How big is your case? Are you using a full-tower?
Are you using a 40 wire IDE cable? If you are, then using the master/slave jumpers setting is correct. But if you're using a 80 wire IDE cable, the drives should be set to CS...but some optical drives don't like being on 80 wire IDE cables (I don't know why).  Cricket
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01-24-2004, 03:03 AM
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i am using mid tower. my video card is huge and the cable just won't reach around it. the drives are connected by 40 pin ide cable. i'll switch the jumper setting tomorrow and let you know if it worked.
thanks cricket |
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01-24-2004, 12:02 PM
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both drives recognized now after setting them as master/slave
thanks again |
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