I found out that the IDE Cable plugs into the motherboard but theres no slot on my hard-drive to connect it on that fits the IDE cable.
The only ports on the Hard-Drive are these:
Help? :x
qwertyu fucked around with this message on 09-14-2004 at 07:13 AM.
Maradon! fucked around with this message on 09-14-2004 at 07:41 AM.
Can I buy one at Staples or anything?
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Holden booooze lime pole over bench lick:
I honestly don't have any :/Can I buy one at Staples or anything?
I have a fifteen pound box full of nothing but them, plus I have them laying around at home.
Should be able to get them at best buy or radio shack or somesuch.
Are you sure they didn't come packaged with your motherboard? Does your motherboard even support SATA?
It says it has 2xSATA support if you have the Promise Raid card (which it doesn't specify if it's onboard, seperate, or optional, from what I can tell)...
If it did, it should have come with SATA cables and perhaps you just overlooked them. If you purchased the MBD seperately, check the box and such
Hopefully.
So the sata plugs into back of hard-drive and then where on the MB? Same spot normal IDE would?
Check your manual, odds are, you don't have SATA connectors and will either have to buy a PCI SATA controller, or scrap the drive
The 4 drive SATA RAID controller I bought for a server late last year cost $350. 3Ware cards *rock* though.
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Holden wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
...Ah fuck.
That is overkill for what you would need by far though. Since you won't be even running RAID, being as you have one drive.
It's the two blue ports near the left corner of that picture.
Holden fucked around with this message on 09-14-2004 at 03:11 PM.
Now I plugged the 2 wires onto the HD but they are loose at the other end? Where do those plug in? They don't fit Mobo doesn't look like.
[edit] Looks like Yuri found them. Those two thin blue things on the left edge of the picture (bottom of the board) next to the aquamarine/cyan plug housing. `Doc fucked around with this message on 09-14-2004 at 03:38 PM.
I called Tech Support waiting on my reply..
Back to the problem, Heres a current shot of my problem..
Heres my mobo:
My HD:
Those wires all fit so I assume they are correct, except there no wire in that last port to the right of the rest.
And heres the end of the multi-color wires the white thing that I don't know what is for..
Really I have no clue where to put them in.
The white did go on Power
And the black went to the SATA1 Slot on the mobo..
thanks all.
