No place to plug in CDDrive?

EMO-TOCROSS said:
I have this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131022

and this CD-Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106015

and this Cord: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812183036


There is nowhere on the motherboard for me to plug the cord into. Do I need a different cord/CD-Drive? I'm really lost in this whole thing. Thanks -
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You just need to plug it into the IDE channel on the motherboard. By the pics of the mobo, I believe it is in between 2 of the PCI slots.
 
wrong... thats an optional 16x port, which is a 4x port, because they didnt put the extra length for it to be a 16x port, its that little blue IDE port that points outwards is what you want...
 
I see where your looking at, but those are only painted dots on the motherboard. There is only one IDE slot on the motherboard and thats the blue part on the motherboard, I can only plug in the Hard Drive or the CD-Drive into it, but not both. There is nowhere to plug the IDE Cord in elsewhere. Am I supposed to plug the CDdrive into the Harddrive instead or something?
 
you can install 6 SATA drives on this board. I would consider installing one for your main drive. You'll have terrible performance using your CD on the same IDE as the main HDD
 
it looks like an IDE port next to the main power connector on the right...if im correct the blue one would be IDE channel 1 and the black IDE channel 2 for your cd rom
 
Maddhatter said:
it looks like an IDE port next to the main power connector on the right...if im correct the blue one would be IDE channel 1 and the black IDE channel 2 for your cd rom
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no, the one next to the power is for the floppy... there is only one IDE port on AM2 motherboards
 
I had the same problem with my Asus M2n-E (M2n-SLi has the same exact problem, even though its $50 more). What I did is I bought PCI ATA card (the link is at the bottom of this post.) I've talk with a customer service to find out if this device is slower then the IDE port on the motherboard. But he and other two people told me that it will be just as fast because ATA 100/300 HardDrives are slow by themselves (because the technology is old/slow). The only downfall of this thing is that it wont support Optical Drives, so you cannot connect CD-Rom's to it. But over all its a cheap fix for missing IDE ports and it supports all imaginable RAID which is kinda cool. I bought this card, so I can use my old HardDrive until I can afford a good SATA HardDrive.
PS: You have a couple of options on how to get your CD-rom/HardDrive connected.
1) Buy the PCI ATA 100/300 card that I have
2) Buy an SATA HardDrive (which will be faster then ATA(IDE) HardDrive)
3) Buy an adapter that converts SATA port on the M2n-E to IDE, I've seen a couple of those for sale on newegg.com.

Here's some links for ya.
Comp USA PCI ATA card http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=SEARCH&Ntt=ATA+carfd&N=0&Dx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&D=ATA+carfd&Ntk=All&product_code=329470&Pn=PCI_ATA_133_RAID_Card
NewEgg.com SATA to IDE card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124022
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822998001
NewEgg.com HardDrive SATA (way faster then ATA 100/300)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822145082

Crap I forgot my main point! The Asus M2n-E has one IDE port the reason why people cant see is because its vertical unlike normal horizontal placement of the plug. So you can hook up, up to 2 devices to it. The thing with my setup is that I have Antec Sonata II case where harddrives are placed sideways and my IDE cords wont stretch that far. So I had to buy the PCI card to make my setup work for now.
 
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Just be careful, if your having your hdd and cdrom on the same IDE cable, make sure your hdd is on the first plug, and your cdrom is on the 2nd....
 
Almost all new motherboards only have 1 IDE port, since almost all hard drives are SATA now. And not too far in the future, motherboards wont have any IDE ports. The only reason there sticking around is because there are only a select few SATA Optical Drives.
 
Is there even a reason to have SATA optical drive? I mean I dont think as of right now Optical Drive can beat the speed of IDE, so running them through SATA wont do any good.
 
Niskyspy said:
Is there even a reason to have SATA optical drive? I mean I dont think as of right now Optical Drive can beat the speed of IDE, so running them through SATA wont do any good.
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Thats why most optical drives are still ide. They don't really have many optical drives that are sata yet, they need to start making more before mobo manufacturers can completely make the switch.
 
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