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On 23/04/13 15:21, bad apple wrote:
I have now looked in the tower. The board is marked ASRock 939Dual-SATA2. Is that info any use? I do not know enough about this to recognise if there are any IDE ports present, though I cannot see any likely candidates.That's not that old actually, some of us here on this list have got proper antiques in our garages! A 2006 vintage machine will quite possibly have both SATA and IDE ports on the mainboard and will in all likelihood boot from USB as well. Can we just clarify then, is the replacement DVD drive you have a SATA or an IDE unit? Does your motherboard have SATA, IDE or both types of connectors?
There is one ribbon cable attached to the motherboard but not attached to anything else. The loose end, female, would plug into one port on the back of the new drive, it appears. But I don't to force anything. You can see how little I know, never been interested in the hardware.
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