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Well, I inherited a CD writer from a friend who upgraded to a dvd writer, and Im trying to hook it up to my computer. However, it wont see the drive. Even in the BIOS, it says theres nothing in IDE2. If I hook the hard drive up to that cable, I get a warning from Gigaraid saying theers an ATA66 or faster drive hooked up to an ATA33 cable. Could this ATA33 cable be the reason the drive wont work? It works fine if i hook it up to where my current dvd writer is.

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I think that made sense

dvd comes up like its on hardware cd as a device ,its one or the other unless you have etc cables plugged in on the mother board ...how much more power are you going to drain away from your puter this week ?

The more strain you put on your puter the more chance your going to have problems unless of course you new power supply is really up to the job?

Im losing track of what you have installed currently so how CD, DVD, HD etc have you now?

1hd, 2 cd drives, and a low power video card. I dont think that is at all too much strain for a 430W PSU

So your adding a 3rd CD drive? I think if thats the case I can see what the problem is.

yeah, i don't like to mix HDD's and CD drives on the same cable. just choose the 2 best CD drives, stick 'em on the same cable and ditch the other

no, I have 2 with this one added B)

Besides, I managed to fix it by mucking around with some BIOS settings (stupid RAID), and changing the cable around, then swapping the hard drive to IDE2 and IDE1 etc etc.

Its fixed anyway

430psu thats nothing are you trying to drain power from the cow shed you add all this stuff why dont you ring a real tech and tell him what you been doing to your puter i myself and him just laugh out loud ,stop posting this crap ,after 600 posts on how do i and can i do this it really gets old ,
why dont you start ringing the shop and asking this stuff {they just laugh again }or maybe use the internet on the right forum {computer choppers dismantlers.com}or start your own forum.....

*sigh* natas, the guy is asking for help, try to show him a little courtesy.

in any event, 430W should be sufficient for his needs. you only really need to push 500W if you have multiple hard disks and multiple graphics cards and powerful dual cores

anyhow, problem is solved.