Now it's time to hook up the ATX power
connector to the motherboard. The connector only goes in one way. There's a clip
that will hold it in place. If by some wild way you get it in backwards, your
computer will blow up (I'm not kidding either).
Connect the power to all the drives. Again
they only go in one way. You really can't get this mixed up as there is a notch
on the connectors that matches the notch on the drives. It won't go in upside
down. If you somehow manage to get it in upside down, you can kiss your drives
good bye when you power up.
Now hook up the IDE and floppy cable. Look
for the pin 1 and hook it to the pin 1 of the drive connectors. Most new IDE
cable has a notch on the connector so you can not put it in backwards. If you do
put it in backwards, it won't kill your drives. Your system will just not boot.
For this setup, I hook the floppy cable to the floppy drive, the IDE cable
connects to IDE port 1 and hooks up the hard drive (master) and DVD drive
(slave)
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