I built a PC for the first time in my life. (I had experience upgrading).
I have an Intel D945GTPLR Motherboard with Pentium D processor.
Question:
There are 2 IDE connectors on board. FDD & Primary IDE. I do not have FDD and will not use that connector. I have configured such that HDD will be the Master Drive and CD/DVD RW will be the Slave on the same ribbon and connected to the Primary IDE. I have read about doing this and am sure atleast it is the right thing to do. Also the BIOS does support such configuration, allowing to BOOT from the Slave device (I READ BUT WILL RE-READ ON THE SAME).
Will all Hardware be detected successfully by the Operating system like Windows XP?
I sill have to start the system but need to do the final checks.
2006-06-08 02:17:52 · 7 answers · asked by pkunal 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
You are absolutely right. Set the jumper on he hard disk as MASTER and the jumper on the CD/DVD drive as SLAVE.
In the BIOS simply select the devices for the boot order. In your case:
1.CD ROM
2.HDD
The bios will pick it up. You will see the messages on the screen during boot up process. Put your operating system disk in the drive and power the machine on. It will load it automatically. Sometimes it may prompt you, "Boot From CD Yes/No" or something like that.
2006-06-08 07:27:32 · answer #1 · answered by JonT774 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they may be identify if the ribbon cable is correct,other than that set the jumper well on the hard drive to master,read from the back of thr drive for correct jumper settings ,also make sure the longest side of the ribbon cable goes to the board and the far end to the hard drive,then the middle to the dvd/cd with slave jumper set.thank you
2006-06-13 01:25:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds fine to me.. One thing you should do is disable Floppy Drive checking in the Bios, or you will get an error and will need to hit F1 or some other combo to boot..
2006-06-15 00:54:35 · answer #3 · answered by bbkidchen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea. You can do that. XP is really good about picking up hardware. If you need to install drivers, do that as well.
2006-06-08 02:21:44 · answer #4 · answered by dukeofhmong 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about that cfg at all...reboot and see what window's does...if a black screen come up with errors then No it didn't correctly identify your cfg...I always used Masterslave as my second hd...
2006-06-08 02:24:30 · answer #5 · answered by MUff1N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats correct, i have never had to install drivers for HD or DVD drives so its all good.
2006-06-08 02:28:23 · answer #6 · answered by tru_story 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try it.I think it's right
2006-06-08 02:22:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋