Does the ASUS P5KC MOTHERBOARD COME WITH A CD CONNECTION ON THE BOARD

Evilgamer · 20 Sep 2008 at 01:46

I brought this motherboard so i could use a new graphics card. Problem is I've connected everything except the cd drives on to the board so the question is a) where is it on the motherboard or is it a diiferent cable for it?

b) the motherboard is a Asus P5KC Combo Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard if this helps people

Thanks

David.

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Ross1234 · 20 Sep 2008 at 02:10

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Evilgamer · 20 Sep 2008 at 02:36

Not sure what u mean't by that. is there a connection for my dvd drives on the motherboard?

need help with it

MeatLoaf · 20 Sep 2008 at 03:41

Evilgamer said:
Not sure what u mean't by that. is there a connection for my dvd drives on the motherboard?

need help with it

If you mean an IDE or SATA port then yes it does.

nightmare99 · 20 Sep 2008 at 09:36

Maybe hes talking about CD audio connections? If so nearly all boards no longer have these CD audio is digitally extracted as data over your PATA/SATA interface.

Evilgamer · 20 Sep 2008 at 13:13

I haven't got a sata dvd drive just bog standanrd dvd drive prior to the sata range coming out. There is only 1 connection on the motherboard for the ide connection which i thought is for the hard drive not the dvd drive.

Have i brought the wrong board then?

Or should i buy a sata dvd drive and use the ide cable for the hdd instead?

The dvd drive needs to be plugged onto the motherboard somehow but isn't sata just a plain simple ide cable if that helps.

Thanks for the help.

MeatLoaf · 20 Sep 2008 at 13:17

Probably cheaper and easier to get a SATA dvd drive. You could allow the hard drive and your IDE dbd drive share the same cable but its not an ideal solution.

nightmare99 · 20 Sep 2008 at 18:40

I would get a SATA hard drive to be honest. Our even better get a SATA hard drive & optical drive.