It is possible that once our PC refuses to boot normally and one of the possible causes that could be causing this failure is that our drives are not installed properly. The following document explains how to get it right and minimized the chance of error due to defects in the assembly.

To verify the installation of the units are attached indicative schemes that facilitate the identification and understanding of what is explained here.

Here we see an exaggerated the IDE connectors on the motherboard. You can see that there are two IDE channel 0 and IDE 1.

Check that you have connected to the IDE channel 0 data cable that connects the motherboard to the IDE drives .

In this scheme has represented a standard IDE cable. You'll see 3 connectors two of them, 2 and 3, quite close together.

The connector number 1 will be connected to IDE 0 on the motherboard. The connector number 2 will be connected to the hard disk drive and the number 3 connects the CDROM drive. You must take special care to place the small red wire IDE cable to PIN 1 as the IDE connector on the motherboard as CDROM drives and HDD. Do not worry if it is indicated which is the No. 1 pin.

To help a little with the orientation of the red wire IDE cable is attached the latest scheme BACK. Click on the image and note well that this wire must be connected to pin 1 to the connector on the hard drive and CDROM drive. A good trick if you do not know what the pin # 1 is to connect the IDE cable so that the red wire next to the electrical connector.

Once reviewed and verified the installation of the IDE drives would not hurt come into the BIOS and auto detect new hard disk drive You do not have more to enter the option IDE HDD auto detection or similar. If everything is properly installed parameters appear instantly in your drive. Restart your system and everything should work perfectly.

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