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Installing a CD-ROM Drive
1. Install the CD-ROM drive into the drive cage in your system case.
2. Plug the IDE cable into the primary IDE channel on the mainboard
IDE1.
3. Plug one of the connectors on the IDE cable into the IDE connector
on the back edge of the CD-ROM drive. It doesn’t matter which
connector on the cable that you use. Make sure that you have the
pin-1 side of the cable matched with the pin-1 side of the connector.
4. Plug a power cable from the case power supply unit into the power
connector on the back edge of the CD-ROM drive.
5. Use the audio cable provided with the CD-ROM drive to connect the
audio connector on the rear edge of the CD-ROM drive to the one of
the two CD connectors on the motherboard.
6. When you first start up your system, go immediately to the setup
utility and use the IDE Hard Disk Auto Detect feature to configure the
IDE devices that you have installed. See Chapter three for more
information.
Hard disk drive
IDE connector
Power connector
IDE ribbon cable
IDE1
IDE2
CD-ROM drive
Audio connector
CD1 & CD2
