Excuse me for jumping in here, but I'd like to add one thing. Please be sure the power supply in the PC is capable of carrying the extra load. Many computers being made contain only a bare minimum power supply - usually on the order of 200 or 250 watts. While this is adequate for what is in the PC at the time it is shipped, adding peripherals can overload the power supply. Adding an extra hard drive, CD/DVD burner, video card and audio card can tax a minimal power supply and cause many problems. Usually, just adding one of these is not a major concern, but consider upgrading the power supply if you're adding several. A 450 watt power supply is generally fairly cheap - on the order of $35 to $60, and can save headaches down the road!
73 Dave KB3MOW > A computer, intelligent, friend of mine has been educating me of swapping > hard drives... For example, drive C..is usually marked at 'master' and the > others are marked as slaves.... > The marking is a jumper .. > On the bank of your hard drive are three recepticles... > The first one is a long plug, of which the data flows... > The second plug / receptical contain 4 rather heavy wires.. marked yellow, > black, black and red.. they contain the D.C. wiring.. I assume by the > colours.... > The third plug has no opposite polarity receptical but contains > jumper(s)... This is the jumper which determnes whether or not the hard > drive is a slave or master drive... > On one side of your hard drive, you should notice some printing which > tells you how to make the drive a master or slave... > You follow the instructions to make that drive a master or slave.... > This will allow you to put another drive onto your existing computer.... > including removing them should you desire.... > I had three computers.. I took the oldest computer's hard drive out and > put them into my newer computer... making the older computer's drive C my > newer computer's drive D, or which ever letter was available.... > Now I do realise I have probably drifted somewhat off topic but I hope the > information was of some value... > > Larry ve3fxq >
