Andrew's Guide on how to build a computer

[Home Page] → [The Case] → [Motherboard] → [CPU] → [RAM] → [Mount] → [Hard Drive] → [CD-ROM] → [All Done!]

Step 8:Plugging in the CablesCables

Attach the Molex power cable to the drive. Unlike the floppy drive power plug, these Molex connectors can only fit into the drive one way, so relax, you can't make a mistake here. Attach the Primary IDE cable to the drive (for any recent motherboard, this should be a 80 wire UDMA cable). It will be keyed to only fit in one way, but to make sure, the red or blue on the cable should be facing the hard-drive power cable. Attach the long end of the cable to the IDE 0 connector on the motherboard first, then if there are other drives attach those IDE cables to the IDE 1 connector. PCSTATSSerial ATA drives are still fairly new, so we will only cover them briefly.

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