hi all
i recently bought a bare bones system from novatech just a box , power
supply , motherboard , & processor
as i fitted in my hard drive and cd re-writer and floppy disc drive i remembered
that i had a dvd player rescued from a relatives computer failure and
thought it would be an idea to fit that as well
so floppy drive fitted(i need this for making direct line trees for people
starting out) , hard drive set to master , cdrw set to slave , and
get another flat cable to connect up the dvd and............
it's not there no second connection on the motherboard
now i know it's not top of the range but even my old one had two
connections
then i read up on the motherboard and there there are extra connections
but these are round cable connections not flat cable
in the future motherboards will become round cable connections only.
you can buy some kind of adapter board , but be aware when buying
bare bone systems in the future that they might connect directly to you old
cd , cdrw , dvd , or dvdrw disc drives
yours
ev
ps i also bought a complete box for my daughter from novotech with a
do everything disc player/drive
higher spec. than mine just over two hundred pounds
this included matching black mouse and keybord - good value free delivery
(about 4 days) just had to connect it up and load windows xp