strekship Posted May 3, 2004 Share Posted May 3, 2004 I got a Creaative PC-DVD rom drive and cannot figure out how to install it. It is the 6X version. I pluged it into the ide cable as the slave and i pluged it into the pwersupply and it acted like it wasn't getting power, but when i unplug the IDE cable, it gets power and the light turns on, what is going on here? THe ide cable i pluged ut unto is also connected to the HDD and Floppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 heh i think u're confusing the power cable with the ide cableide cable cannot go to the hdd and the floppy at the same timethere is a smaller pin cable for floppywhere as the new hdd's use 80 and cdrom's use 40pin. its not likely that u're going to hook an ide cable to the floppygrab the cable coming from the power supply (should be in red/yellow/black) plug it to the dvd-rom, that would be the power cablethen plug the ide cable (usually grey) to the dvdrom. the usually have pins so that u don't plug it upside down. if it doesn't have it place it so that the pink side of that cable is on the right side...hope that helps.....u cannot plug the power cord wrong unless u try very very hard. so try flipping the ide cable that goes to the dvd-rom.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strekship Posted May 5, 2004 Author Share Posted May 5, 2004 not to sound rude or anything, but im no computer novice. I can tell the difference between a power cable and a IDE cable. But anyway, mabi it was the wrong cable. Im pretty sure i was plugging in the right cables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 not to sound rude or anything, but im no computer novice. I can tell the difference between a power cable and a IDE cable. But anyway, mabi it was the wrong cable. Im pretty sure i was plugging in the right cables.On the IDE cable that you were connecting to the DVD drive, is this the primary or secondary IDE cable? And what is connected to the MASTER plug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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