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Installing a new CD/DVD Rom Drive on your computer. These instructions describe how to connect internal, CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD drives (also called CD recorders or burners) to PCs. If you are considering adding one of these CD-RW drives to your system, they're available from a variety of manufacturers, shop around for the best price. See Burning CDR's page here for help.

The prices for internal CD-RW EIDE drive are very low. External CD-RW drives are available too, but at higher prices and slower speeds then an internal drive. If your PC has a free front-accessible 5.25 inch drive bay. opt for an internal CD-RW drive. You'll want to keep your existing CD-ROM drive for faster disc coping from one drive to another. Here are the steps for installing a CD-RW or DVD drive, For EIDE start with step 1. Install an Internal Computer CD-Rom or DVD Drive. Remember to come back to WebTechGeek.com for more How to's!

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Steps: Install an Internal Computer CD-Rom or DVD Drive:

1. Shut down the computer, but leave it plugged into surge suppresser, and remove the cover.

2. Your existing CD-Rom drive is probably hooked up by its wide date cable to the secondary EIDE channel connector on your motherboard, and that cable's extra connector is the best place to hook up your new CD-RWdrive.

3. If you find the hard drive and CD-ROM drive both attached to the primary EIDE channel connector, consider attaching the CD-ROM drive to the secondary channel. Remember to come back to WebTechGeek.com for more How~2 tips!

4. If a CD-ROM drive is already connected to the second EIDE connector on the motherboard, set the CD-RW drive jumpers to slave and hook up that drive to the extra connector on the cable. Make sure the edge of the cable with the red making is connected to pin 1 on the CD-RW drive (usually next to the power connector).

5. If nothing's attached to the second EIDE connector on the motherboard, set the CD-RW drive jumpers to Master, and use the cable that came with the drive to connect it to the motherboard.

6. Connect the audio cable from the CD-RW drive to your sound card input port on your PC sound card. If you want your CD-RW drive to play music and audio, you'll likely need to disconnect your CD-ROM drive's audio cable or buy a CD-ROM audio line divider, since most sound cards have room for only one cable.

7. Replace PC cover, and turn on the computer. If you installed an internal EIDE CD-RW drive in Windows 98, Me, 9X, Windows should detect it automatically at startup and install the required driver. You may be asked to insert your original Windows 9X CD-ROM.

8. Install CD driver software according to the manufacturer's instructions. The procedures vary by manufacturer, follow the manual's directions closely.

9. If Windows or the installation software can't find the drive, go to the start > settings > control panel, and double-click the system icon, and click the Device Manager tab. If your new drive is shown with an exclamation point (!) next to it, right click on your new drive and delete it. Windows will ask you to reboot, reboot windows this time windows should find your new drive. Install an Internal Computer CD-Rom or DVD Drive.

Tips: IRQ conflicts and other compatibility issues are common when connecting peripherals to PCs. Contact the manufacturers of your computer and CD drive if you have problems getting the drive to work. If you will not be playing music using your CD drive, you do not need to connect the audio cable. Connect magnetically shielded speakers or headphones to CD drive if you wish. Install an Internal Computer CD-Rom or DVD Drive. Remember to come back to WebTechGeek.com for more How to tip.

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