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Connecting New DvD Drive To Motherboard - Help Please

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Hi everyone, i bought a new disk drive, and it arrived today, upon taking apart my computer and trying to put it in, i noticed that the connectors it needs are different to my old dvd disk drive, so i'm pretty stuck on what to do now, i was pretty sure they took all the same connectors, but i guess i was wrong!

I bought this disk drive http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productInfo.aspx?ProductID=24241&Spec=1#ShowReview

So bascialy if anyone could help me on what i should do to connect this to my motherboard it would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks!!!
 
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it connects via a serial ATA cable like a Hard drive would

It would look like this and would have come with your motherboard
 
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thanks guys, but would my motherboard take those cables, it's 2 years old or is there anyway to check? thanks guys!
 
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and hopefully your PSU also has SATA plugs. Unless it's really old, it should.

What MB do you have?
 
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it's around 2 years old, is there anyway i can check? thanks duff!
 
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happen to have the manual? The box? It should have them.
 
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Hmm i don't, since it's quite a while ago i've needed them, in CPU-Z it shows

Model - MS-7125

Chipset: NVIDIA NForce4 rev A3

and the rest of the stuff sais it's nvidia too, hope this helps!
 
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Just look on your motherboard.

Or return it for an IDE drive.
 
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yes, IDE is what your old drive used. The big giant ribbon cable
 
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Yes, the ribben that your old one has is IDE.
 
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Yeah, thats it! shame i didn't know about this before, well GREAT thanks for the help guys, i will return this one for that IDE one, you guys really helped a bunch! thanks alot!
 
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I have this mother board and a athlon 3500+. Will a GeForce 9800 GX2 work on it?
 
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yes it should. It has a single PCIe X16 slot
 
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That is awesome, I love how he hijacked a 10 month old thread to ask a question not related to the topic!!! He must have done a search for MS-7125 and ended up here.
 
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