Installing a CD Rom

Take out the CD drive. Disconnect the hard drive from the cable. Attach it to the other end of the cable (where you had the CD attached). Attach the CD to where the hard drive was. Try it now.

Make sure the CD is jumpered as slave and the HDD as master and make sure your cable isn't one of the old CS varieties. If it is you can use the CS jumpers on your drives.

Ensure as in answer two that the master slave jumpers are set for the Master for Hard Disk and Slave for the CD rom or if you have a second ide port just connect the CD rom to is as it is and both should work. You'll know if it works as you see the HD boot and Cdrom with it's status come up. If the other port doesn't work yoiu may have to use the master jumper for the cdrom in Ide port 2. MAke sure the bios is set to use both ports.

In addition jumpering the cdrom as slave, and bios second device to cdrom, ensure grey cable has red stripe pointing toward the power connector. Question:, do you have secondary ide connector on motherboard. If so,cable it to cdrom, strap cdrom as master, and secondary ide first device to cdrom.

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Bo

The real problem lies in the difference in the controllers on the Hard drive and the CD rom. Many of todays newer CD will not function off of the older hard drives and visa versa. What you may try is to set the HD as cable select, I'm guessing it's that old and then try the CD as a slave. Remember you will only get the throughput of the controller that you are using as a master. My suggestion: Buy a new HD also and ghost your old drive to your new one.

First, if your computer supports it,
check if you have primary and secondary IDE ports on your motherboard.
If yes, put the HD on the primary, and the CDROM on the secondary.

Second, check the jumpers.
If you have the HD and CDROM on the same IDE, set the HD to master and the CDROM to slave.

Third, check out your BIOS.
Check the boot parameters and make sure the Hard Drive gets priority over the CDROM.

The computer is trying to boot from the CD ROM . It could be because the CD ROM is set as primary master . Change it to secondary Master or primary slave . Make sure the jumper on the CD ROM is set accordingly .And in the bios boot from ide(Zero) isselected .

get a cable and make sure that when you unravel the cable that all the sockets (in the cable) are facing the same way and that the cable is smooth and there are no twists or turns in it. now plug in the center socket to the hard drive then the socket, a shorter length away should be connected to the cd-rom drive and the last one to your bios/motherboard. now make sure your hard drive is set to Master mode. and your cd-rom should be set to slave mode. In your bios, try auto hard drive configuration. that should work.

First, check your bios and make sure that you either have the primary/slave option set as auto or if installing it to the secondary, make sure that the switch is on (auto). If setting the cd to the primary, set the harddrive to master and the cd toslave. If using the secondary, leave the hardrive set as is and set the cd to master. This should get you a good boot and an operational cd.

Paul.

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