Hi Diana,

So far so good.  The next thing to do is connect the CDROM and CDRW to the
"secondary" IDE connector on your motherboard.  This should be next to one
in which the cable from the hard drive is already connected to.  The two
CD's will use an identical cable to that used on the hard drive.  You must
determine from the CDrom and the CDRW which one will be the "master" and
configure it so.  Then the other device is configured as the "slave".  Plug
in the cable to the motherboard from the CD's to the "secondary" IDe.  The
sound cable will go from the soundcard to the CD you will want sound to come
from, normally the CDrom.  THen boot the system.  And you should be all set.

Regards,
Fred Hahnel
Program Coordinator, Body CAD PIM
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-----Original Message-----
From: Diana Benoit [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 1:20 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCBUILD] Building first computer


Hi Listers,

I'm building my first computer and I'm stuck.  I have mounted the floppy,
hard drive and a CD-ROM and CD-RW.  I have connected the cable to the floppy
and
the hard drive.  I believe the jumper setting on the hard drive is master.
The
problem lies with the two CD-ROM's.  I don't understand which one should be
master and which should be slave, and how to attach the cable to the
CD-ROM's
and then to the mother board.

Please put the responses in easy terms and don't skip any steps.  I'm really
new at this and I don't understand everything yet.

By the way, the mother board is an Abit VH6 and the sound card is built in.
Does that mean I don't have to attach the cord for the sound to the hard
drive
and CD-ROM's?  I am confused!

Thanks in advance for your help.
Diana

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