hi,
I have just bought a new sony cd rw internal drive. I have already install it into the casing but i am have problems connecting it. On the motherboard there is only two atapi sockets and are already used so i can't devote one to the cd rw drive. The connection i have just now is a atapi cable going from the motherboard to the hard drive then the cd rw drive. when i boot up it does register but when i open my computer there is no extra drive shown. And i think the the cd rw drive is connected as the master and the hard drive being the slave. There are three lose power cable and connnected one to the back as well as the atapi cable, is there anything else to be connected. But i cannot see any lose audio cables, but will the atapi cable include audio? It is a compaq presairo 5000 that i hav, do i have the correct connection? do i need any extra cables? If i need to use the bios i can't because i have put a password on it and forgot it. what should i do. if possible can you give me a website that will show these connection on a compaq computer please. thx
I have just bought a new sony cd rw internal drive. I have already install it into the casing but i am have problems connecting it. On the motherboard there is only two atapi sockets and are already used so i can't devote one to the cd rw drive. The connection i have just now is a atapi cable going from the motherboard to the hard drive then the cd rw drive. when i boot up it does register but when i open my computer there is no extra drive shown. And i think the the cd rw drive is connected as the master and the hard drive being the slave. There are three lose power cable and connnected one to the back as well as the atapi cable, is there anything else to be connected. But i cannot see any lose audio cables, but will the atapi cable include audio? It is a compaq presairo 5000 that i hav, do i have the correct connection? do i need any extra cables? If i need to use the bios i can't because i have put a password on it and forgot it. what should i do. if possible can you give me a website that will show these connection on a compaq computer please. thx