when i bought my motherboard it came with two 4-pin to sata power cables but i see that the power supplies have a sata power cable on it how do i connect these i have no idea how to do this
if your power supply has sata power supply, there is no need to use the 4 pin adapter. most of power supply has 4 pin. consist of 4wires color red,2-black and yellow. and you cant go wrong connecting these pins, for they wont fit, if tried to connect on other way
I wonder what type of SATA hard drive Thomas has.
at the same time as you're which skill are you able as nicely off of the IDE demanding tension and get get right of entry to to the Sata tension, the respond is definite. in undemanding words connect the SATA demanding tension, and make effective the BIOS settings are set as nicely from the IDE tension.
The hard drive should have a 4 pine Molex connection or similar that matches up to the outputs from the power supply. Basically its a Molex (4 wire) connection to the power supply and a long thin data connection to the mother board.
Just connect the power supplies sata power connector to the hard drive. By the way those 4-pin(molex) to sata power connectors are only used if your power supply doesn't have sata power connectors but only molex and your hard drives are sata power. They allow you to connect a 4pin molex to the connector and power sata hard drives with it. If you want to connect a sata power connector to it and get molex power you can't the connector is not designed for that. Also if your hard drive uses sata to connect to the motherboard and has a 4pin power connector just connect a 4pin power cable from the power supply to the hard drive. I hope that answers your question.
