immortal143 In Runtime Messages 130 Jan 17, 2008 #1 well i just bought a motherboard it has one ide port, how do i hook up my hard drive and my cd/dvd drive to it?
well i just bought a motherboard it has one ide port, how do i hook up my hard drive and my cd/dvd drive to it?
BrynF_UK Fully Optimized Messages 1,574 Jan 17, 2008 #2 if they're both IDE, you put the hard drive on the end of the cable, and the D drive mid-way on the cable and set it to be the slave
if they're both IDE, you put the hard drive on the end of the cable, and the D drive mid-way on the cable and set it to be the slave
M mayorredbeard Daemon Poster Messages 1,246 Jan 17, 2008 #4 immortal143 said: how do i set it to be the slave Click to expand... Each cable that goes from the mobo to the hdd should have one end that goes to your mobo, and then the other end has two ports. One should be labled slave, the other one master. Simply put the port in the hdd labled slave.
immortal143 said: how do i set it to be the slave Click to expand... Each cable that goes from the mobo to the hdd should have one end that goes to your mobo, and then the other end has two ports. One should be labled slave, the other one master. Simply put the port in the hdd labled slave.
OP OP immortal143 In Runtime Messages 130 Jan 17, 2008 #6 do i need a sli mobo to play with a sli graphics card?
BrynF_UK Fully Optimized Messages 1,574 Jan 17, 2008 #7 nope you will need if you have two graphics cards and want them in SLI mode though.