1 or two to use the other ones and its really annoying.. is there something that i can get that can give me more ide cables and also power cables inside the pc as well?
Switch your harddrives to SATA and it will free up some IDE slots. Most motherboards only support 4 IDE devices. I personally run with only one DVD/CD Burner drive, costs about $40 on NewEgg.
you have two IDE ports in your mobo,each one for an IDE cable.every IDE cable supports two devices - master and slave. so you can either: connect the two HD's together,one will be the master(where your primary OS is installed),the other one the slave.making sure the jumper pin configurations are set correctly for master and slave.you will find the instructions on how to do this on the stickers at the backs of these HD's nnect the two optical drives as well to the other IDE cable,same procedure,jumper pins,master and slave. or another way is you can connect one HD and one optical drive together on the same cable,master and slave. if you're not sure about the jumper settings,just use cable select option. or you can get an IDE PCI card adaptor.just put in into any free pci slot on your pc then connect the other devices to it. another way is to get SATA drives to free up the IDE connections.but you will need a SATA PCI card adaptor,if your mobo is not equipped with a sata port. as for the power supply,the cheaper alternative is to get multiplier cables.they are short cables like the ones you see in your pc.one end is a male connector that you connect to the power cable(the cable connected to your device),on the other end are two female connectors for your devices.but you have to take into consideration the wattage of your installed powerbox.it is intended for the wattage of your system,usually manufacturers give a higher wattage rating than what is actually written on the label,for safety reasons,but don't count on that because it's going to be a very small margin.if your powerbox gets really too hot,get a new one with higher watt rating. with four devices - two HD's and two DVD Drives,you shouldn't have any problems at all regarding your IDE connections. but why is your soundcard connected to your IDE cable? if that is the case then you have to get a PCI soundcard. hope that helped.cheers.good luck.
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Ok..listen carefully. If you try to overload your computer with too many peripherals that it is not designed for, you are going to have problems..power supply, being a major one. Yes, you can get another mother board and bigger power supply if you are willing to pay for them. But, if money is an issue, do you really need 2 DVD roms? Do you really need 2 hard drives? If you do, and you are willing to pay for them, so be it. One possible solution is for your sound card. Most of them do not plug into the ribbon cable that also goes to the DVD/harddrive. You could consider another more modern sound card that would not have a ribbon cable, but only a small cable that plugs into the Dvd drive. Bottom line: You have a primary slot and a secondary slot on your motherboard. Your cables have 2 places for a master and a slave. That means 4 peripherals total and you have 5, if you count the sound card, and you need to get rid of at least one peripheral.
Absolutely. Firstly, you can put 2 IDE drives on a cable, secondly, you should have 2 IDE ports on your mobo supporting a total of 4 IDE devices. Your sound card shouldn't be takking one of THEM up. If you have the creative labs LiveDrive that is supposed to go to its own connector on the cound card, not to your mobos IDE ports. If you still have more than 4 ide devices you can buy an add on card that will support aother 4 IDE ports from CompUSA. They're between $15-30 I know they are cheap but consider whether your mobo also has serialATA ports built in. They've been comming with for a few years now. You may find its a good time to buy a couple of new hard drives, copy your existing drives over, and move them off the ide ports entirely.
