2nd DVD/CD Drive?

sunspot

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Can someone help me with some information on how to hook one up?
I have a Dell E310. I put the drive in the empty bay and hooked up the wide ribbon cable and plugged in the 4 pin power socket. When I tried to boot up, nada. It would not boot. After pulling the ribbon and socket, it boots up.
Where did I go wrong?
 

Qoose

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Try your jumpers. They are tiny little fuse like things that designate drives as master, slave, or cable select. Choose the one at the end as Master and the middle on as Slave, and if no luck there, try setting both to Cable Select.
 

axolotls

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For DELL you need to go into your BIOS when the PC boots up and tell it that you're hooking up a secondary DVD drive.
 
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