Connecting the Drive Cables

After you replace the bracket, you need to connect the cables for both the hard disk drive and the diskette drive. This section includes steps for the following procedures:

0Connecting the drive ribbon cable to the system board

0Connecting the cables to the hard disk drive

0Reconnecting the cables to the diskette drive.

Connecting the drive cable to the system board

Follow the steps below to connect the hard drive ribbon cable to the system board, if it is not already connected.

1.Locate the hard disk drive ribbon cable; it is a flat cable with a connector on each end and an additional connector on the ribbon cable. All the connectors on this cable look the same.

system board

connector for second

connector for first

connector

hard disk d rive

hard disk drive

red wire

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