Author Topic: Building my 1st PC... (Read 2633 times)

SuperDud · « **Reply #45 on:** July 31, 2006, 07:11:03 AM »

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Originally posted by Rolex
This will not be as hard or as complicated as you think it will be. Read the instructions and you'll be fine. The intructions and photos/illustrations are written at a 12 year-old level.

If you get stuck, remember that Chinese peasants can assemble PCs, then read the instructions again.

OK, thanks guys. I got parts arriving today so here's hoping. I did buy the artic silver 5 stuff b/c I heard it was really good. I'll keep you guys posted:D

SuperDud · « **Reply #46 on:** July 31, 2006, 05:05:59 PM »

OK my newest question.

As a birthday present I bought my sister the same CD/DVD combo that I bought for my new one. It's going to be installed on an already built and running PC. I installed the hardware fine but now it's telling me to install software. The only problem is it didn't come with a disk. All I got was a Nero software disk for burning, it sn't for the hardare. Does it need to be downloaded from online? Also, when we start up the PC it gives us the followign messages:

Drive 4 not found parallel ATA Pata 0 (PRI IDE MASER)
Drive 5 not found parallell ATA Pata 1 (PRI IDE SLAVE)

Also when we tried to let the installation wizard detect it. It says the device is not configured correctly(code 1). I need some help, my sister is threatening to kill me!:eek:

Sincerly yours,
Teh DuD:O

Roscoroo · « **Reply #47 on:** July 31, 2006, 05:27:05 PM »

start her pc ... as soon as you hear the "Post beep " hit the "Delete" key

now your in the bios

toggle down in the main use the enter , arrow , - + number pad keys
highlight the cdrom hit the + key til it says "Auto" hit enter .....

now it should auto reconize that new cdrom ..

hit esc then "arrow" over to exit hit "enter " and save let it reboot ...

now your os may reconize new hardware ... now install nero and your all set .

(Send beernuts to ..Roo's evil mercenary squirrels )

P,s. If ya dont get it pm me your phone # and I'll call .

Krusty · « **Reply #48 on:** July 31, 2006, 05:28:35 PM »

Is it the only thing on the "ribbon" IDE cable?

Is it at the end of the cable, or on the inner connector? Check the drive itself for the jumper location for master and for slave.

Make sure there is only 1 master and 1 slave on the same cable.

If that still doesn't work, try plugging it into the other IDE cable (if not in use).

EDIT: Once the motherboard recognizes it, it should be auto-installed. Once Windows installs generic drivers, you should be able to install whatever burning software you have, and that will upgrade the drivers to allow burning.

Barring that do a search for model, make, and number, and the word "drivers"

Roscoroo · « **Reply #49 on:** July 31, 2006, 05:49:01 PM »

Krusty ,cd roms ussually get left on cable select .

they only time i master /slave them is when ive got a harddrive added to the secondary ide/ sata.

Krusty · « **Reply #50 on:** July 31, 2006, 05:51:31 PM »

I must've been flashing back to my multiple HD select days.

Well, if it's screwing up try different setups. Disconnect the old one and replace it with new, instead of adding new. Or mix the cables around with different drives on different cables. Get creative, see if you can narrow down what the problem is.

EDIT: Make sure you have the plug going in the proper way. Some drives let you put cables on backwards (been there, done that) and it trashes ("screws with", not "destroys") the entire IDE ribbon when it happens. It will only run properly when installed the right way.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #51 on:** July 31, 2006, 05:56:33 PM »

he may have to change it from cable selet though if theres other stuff on that ide/sata cable though ... if it doesnt reconize in the bios thats when you change it to mastor or slave and see if it reconizes then ...

ive seen 3 cdroms that i couldnt get to reconize. they showed up as a broken string of numbers in the bios ..totally funky kinda thing .. but i think they were oddball dedicated compaq junk from 98-2000 era.

SuperDud · « **Reply #52 on:** July 31, 2006, 08:33:40 PM »

Alright Rosco, I went into BIOS and to those locations. I don't have an auto option. I have on and off only. Also my computer doesn't use delete to get there, I use F2. The operating system is windows XP and a pentium 4 processor if that helps?

Also, in BIOS below the on/off choice it says " device: unknown" in both the master and slave boxes. The newly installed device will open and close when you hit th open/close button, it just won't read anything. Could it be as simple as installing drivers?

SuperDud · « **Reply #53 on:** July 31, 2006, 09:51:14 PM »

Also, in the "my computer" window it no longer detects the old CD drive or the new dvd/cd combo drive.

Krusty · « **Reply #54 on:** July 31, 2006, 09:59:02 PM »

Okay, try this. REMOVE the old drive. Put the new drive EXACTLY where it was.

You probably just have an issue with master/slave. I've had CD-ROMs before that have master jumpers set as I get them (out of the box). It's not too common but it happens.

If you can get both drives working, but only one at a time, it means both are trying to run the same position (be it master or slave).

SuperDud · « **Reply #55 on:** July 31, 2006, 10:12:49 PM »

My problem is the original set up was a dvdrom and seperate cdrom. I took out only the old dvdrom and replaced it with the new "all in 1" rom(the old cdrom is still in there). I did this because the ribbon wiring going to them has 1 connection fot the cdrom then continues up and ends with another connection for the dvdrom(which is currently hooked up to my new rom). I think you were talking about the ribbon wiring earlier. If that's the case should I unplug the connection currently plugged into the old cdrom and plug that into the new rom? Is it ok to just leave one of the plug ins unused?

BTW, thanks for all the patience/help guys!

OOZ662 · « **Reply #56 on:** July 31, 2006, 10:15:32 PM »

It'd be better to take the other one out and leave the space on the cable unused. One less thing using power in the case when the new drive does everything.

SuperDud · « **Reply #57 on:** July 31, 2006, 10:28:37 PM »

OK, I just wasn't sure if I could leave it unplugged or not so I thought I better have something to fill it. Could it be the 2 ROMs are clashing and confusing the PC? Maybe if I remove it that will cause the system to recognize it... I hope!:D

Krusty · « **Reply #58 on:** July 31, 2006, 11:10:46 PM »

OOZ has a point. If it's a good DVD-R drive, you really don't need 2 drives. I've got 2 because one is a DVD-ROM, and one is a CD-RW, but can't read DVDs.

Just store it somewhere safe and clean, or put it into an older computer that needs a DVD-ROM. While this doesn't solve the mystery, we might be able to just bypass the problem. Maybe.

Yes you can have just one plugged in. That works all the time.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #59 on:** July 31, 2006, 11:41:11 PM »

thought about cables yet ...???

Remember theres 33, 66, 100 , 133 ribbon cables
along with the fully pinned out and the blocked pin one ....

there might be a cable incompatability here .