Welp, Built My New Computer...
xioutlawix
Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7118Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7118Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">from scratch even...</div> went ahead and moved my old hard drive, cd rom, burner, and floppy onto a new asus p4g8x motherboard, with a p4 2.4ghz processor into a server case.
Finds my hard drive fine,
it just doesn't recognize my floppy drive, my cd rom, or my burner, and I have no sound <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I suspect that maybe the sound issue is caused by windows ME not having information about the onboard sound that came with the board (ME was the OS previously on my hard drive). Soon as I get the stupid thing to recognize my two cd drives and my floppy I'll get XP up and running and hopefully take it from there <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Thought you guys might want to laugh at the noob's first attempt at building something <grin>
Finds my hard drive fine,
it just doesn't recognize my floppy drive, my cd rom, or my burner, and I have no sound <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I suspect that maybe the sound issue is caused by windows ME not having information about the onboard sound that came with the board (ME was the OS previously on my hard drive). Soon as I get the stupid thing to recognize my two cd drives and my floppy I'll get XP up and running and hopefully take it from there <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Thought you guys might want to laugh at the noob's first attempt at building something <grin>
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The sound prob may be because your motherboard wont have the onboard sound enabled - you need to go into the bios to do this (dont ask where, it may be different on your mobo - ive got an MSI board)
As for the CD drives and floppy drive, are you sure you connected them up correctly?
And push the ide cable into the motherboard firmly - I always find that they are annoyingly hard to get in properly, and come out by there own sometimes too.
Hahaha!! Okay, now that I've fulfilled your request, let's get that beast to purr... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Definetly poke through the BIOS and mess with the settings. Don't worry, it's actually difficult to muck it up unless you tinker with settings you're unsure about (the common ones are pretty much self-explanatory).
Mojo posted my suggestion just as I hit Reply, but yeah - jumpers are the most likely cause of your problems with the CD/burner thing. Just try switching the cable locations (you might need to take the drives out first) or change the jumpers. You might still need to take the drives out if the jumper config isn't visible or if the jumpers themselves aren't easily accessable.
I'd be waiting much less if my comp would acknowledge the fact I have a cd rom in <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
Edit - Question for you guys...
My regular cd rom only has two necessary plugs from what I perceive, one for power, and one to connect to the motherboard.
The burner however, when I removed it from my old computer, has a third wire which I left attached to it, but have no idea its function or purpose. Its one of the really small, thin wires, to be plugged (presumably onto the motherboard) with i think either 3 or 4 tiny pins on it. Any ideas?
:stumped:
:embarassed look:
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