General Installation Guidelines; Connecting Drive Cables - Dell Dimension 3000 Owner's Manual

General Installation Guidelines

Connect IDE hard drives to the system board connector labeled PRI IDE. Connect CD/DVD drives to the
connector labeled J6J1.
When you connect two IDE devices to a single IDE interface cable and configure them for the cable select
setting, the device attached to the last connector on the interface cable is primary or the boot device
(drive 0), and the device attached to the middle connector on the interface cable is the secondary device
(drive 1). See the drive documentation in your upgrade kit for information on configuring devices for the
cable select setting.

Connecting Drive Cables

When you install a drive, you connect two cables—a DC power cable and a data cable—to the back of the
drive and to the system board. Some drives may also have an audio connector; one end of the audio cable
will attach to the drive connector and the other will attach to the system board.
Drive Interface Connectors
Most interface connectors are keyed for correct insertion; that is, a notch or a missing pin on one connector
matches a tab or a filled-in hole on the other connector.
When connecting an IDE cable, ensure you align the colored stripe with the pin 1 connector. When
disconnecting an IDE cable, grasp the colored pull tab and pull until the connector detaches.
Power Cable Connector
power input
connector
power cable
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