Connecting New DvD Drive To Motherboard - Help Please

[Kusimeka]

Hi everyone, i bought a new disk drive, and it arrived today, upon taking apart my computer and trying to put it in, i noticed that the connectors it needs are different to my old dvd disk drive, so i'm pretty stuck on what to do now, i was pretty sure they took all the same connectors, but i guess i was wrong!

I bought this disk drive http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productInfo.aspx?ProductID=24241&Spec=1#ShowReview

So bascialy if anyone could help me on what i should do to connect this to my motherboard it would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks!!!

[Duffman]

it connects via a serial ATA cable like a Hard drive would

It would look like this and would have come with your motherboard
http://www.verbatim.com.au/productimages/215/KUC060_0.jpg

[DaMulta]

http://www.acscontrol.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/311_18inchSataCableRed.jpg

http://www.mysuperpc.com/build/msi_k8n_neo_platinum_motherboard_sata_cable_socket .jpg

http://www.pcstats.com/articleimages/200708/LGGSAH62N_sata2.jpg

[Kusimeka]

thanks guys, but would my motherboard take those cables, it's 2 years old or is there anyway to check? thanks guys!

[Duffman]

and hopefully your PSU also has SATA plugs. Unless it's really old, it should.

What MB do you have?

[Kusimeka]

it's around 2 years old, is there anyway i can check? thanks duff!

[Duffman]

happen to have the manual? The box? It should have them.

[Kusimeka]

Hmm i don't, since it's quite a while ago i've needed them, in CPU-Z it shows

Model - MS-7125

Chipset: NVIDIA NForce4 rev A3

and the rest of the stuff sais it's nvidia too, hope this helps!

[DaMulta]

Just look on your motherboard.

Or return it for an IDE drive.

[Kusimeka]

Would an IDE one work out of the box, with no need to buy extra cables? since i'm not sure what type my old dvd drive is, but it's not SATA so this one for example?

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productInfo.aspx?ProductID=23304&Spec=1#ShowReview

[Duffman]

yes, IDE is what your old drive used. The big giant ribbon cable

[DaMulta]

Yes, the ribben that your old one has is IDE.

[Kusimeka]

Yeah, thats it! shame i didn't know about this before, well GREAT thanks for the help guys, i will return this one for that IDE one, you guys really helped a bunch! thanks alot!

[russs18]

I have this mother board and a athlon 3500+. Will a GeForce 9800 GX2 work on it?

[Duffman]

yes it should. It has a single PCIe X16 slot

[timta2]

That is awesome, I love how he hijacked a 10 month old thread to ask a question not related to the topic!!! He must have done a search for MS-7125 and ended up here.

[russs18]

yes it should. It has a single PCIe X16 slot

Thanks Duffman. appricait the help!:respect: