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Chapter 2
Board Installation
5. Connecting IDE and Floppy Drives
The colored stripe on a ribbon cable should connect to Pin 1 The primary IDE
connector is black; the secondary IDE connector is white. In most cases, this
is the proper way of connecting your IDE cable to the hard drive. Figure 2-14
below shows the IDE cable properly connected to the motherboard. Contact
your hard disk drive manufacturer or documentation for more information.
Some symptoms of incorrectly installed HDDs are:
•
Hard disk drives are not auto-detected: may be a Master/Slave
problem or a bad IDE cable. Contact your vendor.
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Hard Disk Drive Fail message at bootup: may be a bad cable or
lack of power going to the drive.
•
No video or beeps onbootup: usually means the cable is on back
wards.
•
Hard drive lights are constantly on: bad IDE cable or defective drives/
motherboard. Try another HDD.
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Hard drives do not power up: check power cables and cabling.
May also be a bad power supply or IDE drive.
Figure 2-14*
Pin 1
*Note:
The image above is used to illustrate a concept and may not represent the actual
image of your motherboard.
