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shiloh72
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_ 		13. September 2007 @ 21:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have a computer that has eide cables what do i set as master ? my cd rom drive or hard drive or floppy? rite now i have cd rom as primary and hard drive slave is that rite?
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lee mullin
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_ 		13. September 2007 @ 22:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hard drive must be set to master and on the primary ide channel and installed at the end of the cable.....center is use by most for a second hard drive and is set to slave

drives are to be put on the secondary ide channel.dvd or cd-rom is set to master..and installed at the end of cable

some jumpers are set to cable select,check ye computer instructions
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shiloh72
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_ 		14. September 2007 @ 16:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
In the computer eide 1 is primary it has a blk one and a grey one what goes to blk and what goes to grey? then it has another eide 2 i guess thas where you hook up floppy?
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jony218
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_ 		14. September 2007 @ 22:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It don't matter how you set it up, as long as you make sure that your hard drives/cdroms are jumpered properly (one master and one slave per IDE cable).
If your going to go the "cable select" route than it makes a difference where you hooked them up.
I always use the jumpers, and decide how I will connect my hard drives/cdroms on whats the best way to route the IDE cable so it won't be twisted or stretched out to far.
I've never had any problems, where my computer wouldn't boot up. The only problems I ever had was when I had 2 masters on one IDE cable.
When windows starts up, it's not particular on which IDE slot it'll boot from, it usually checks IDE slot 1 first if it doesn't find a bootable partition it'll go to IDE slot 2.
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