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I had to pull the harddrive out of my case the other day and in order to do that I had to disconnect my cd-drive. After reassembly I discovered that I was missing a cable and could find it nowhere but I am unable to define what the cable is.
There are four places for cables on my cd-drive--the ide cable, the sound card's four prong cable, the power cable, and then a small, two-prong by two-prong square which I know has a cable with a rectangular sort of female end.
http://www.geocities.com/pierate777/foundit.jpg
found a picture of it
What makes you think you need that cable?? Did it was there before??
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We had to use my friend's drive-insert case to plug that hd into his drive so that we could transfer a very large (4gb+) project we'd been working on without burning it to a dvd(and because I don't have a dvd burner and his network was down and we didn't have a crossover cable). I have a very small case, half the height of most, so in order to be able to pull the HD out all the way, I had to open the top, pull out the cd drive, and pull out the floppy drive. The hard drive then slipped backward and upward.
Please, if you can define this cable, I would be most appreciative.
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It is possible to get the sound to play from a CDrom drive without the cable installed. I can't recall if there are any caviates involed with that or not. A cable will always work, if you have a port on the sound card, or if onboard sound, a open input. These will be labeled CD in, Aux. First look to see if there isn't a thin 3 wire cable still connected to one of these afore mentioned ports. The sound card is, of course, the card that the speakers connect to on the rear of the case. If no cable exists, then you can purchase one if the port I mentioned is available for use. The cable is a simple affair that has 3 wires that will be terminated with a flat connector with the capacity for 4 wires but only three there. It will be shaped to match what you see on the CD drive. The other end is sometimes different. Look at what the port marked CD in is like and get one to match. Any computer store should have an assortment of these.
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Since this is not a conventional CD-ROM drive, the make and model info. would be really helpful. I say not conventional, because I've never seen a CDROM drive that used the 4 pin Digital connector. Just for grins, I'd go to the hardware device manager to see if the drive is recognized. If it is, I'd uninstall and let Windows reinstall the driver. If not seen, remove and reconnect the cables. You may just have a poor connection. Don't overlook the motherboard end.
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Clyde B
Most CD drives have both analog and digital output. I missed the link to the jpg before. The picture is foriegn to be too. unless that drive is upside down that is where the power connector is, normally. If it is upside down then there are some proprietory pins (6 to be exact) with a jumper on them. That isn't sound. Analog cable is 4 pins, digital is 2 pins.
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The assumption that I made was that the drive was claimed to utilize 4 separate cables as installed, and that somehow the 4th cable got misplaced during the removal and re-install of the drive. I doubt that was the case, but haven't seen all possible setups. I also assumed that the drive did not work after being re-installed.
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OtheHill, look at the picture, drive is not upside down as no rom drive's circuit board is on top but on bottom. possible picture is in reverse but haven't seen drive with power connector on opposite side since 2x cd-roms
david
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Didn't think about the picture being reversed. I still don't think that those pins are for sound.
Clyde - I don't disagree with you, I said as much in #5. I was just saying to the poster that they could use a cable, which I am sure you will agree is possible. As far as the four cables go, I am assuming the poster is counting all the ports on the back of the drive. Now that I think about it, there are only three connections that should be used simultaneously. Either analog or digital sound and then IDE and power. I don't know what those extra pins next to the digital sound are for because they are not identified. I looked at an old CDrom and it had 6 pins there with a jumper on two of them. Other optical drives have various numbers of pins in the same location.
JamesDo you have a cable going from the analog port to the sound card/chip?
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We still don't know what drive we're dealing with, since we've not seen any posting with make or model. That would help shed some light on the port(s) and appropriate cabling needs.
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I agree again. As I stated, I think the picture is of those pins I was referring to in my last response.
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