How to Install a DVD Burner on a Computer

Video Transcript

"You know it seems like yesterday that CD burners were the latest craze that just hit the market. Well now the price is dropping and DVD burners are out on the market and priced rather reasonably and you guys at home might be thinking of getting one. My name is James and I am going to show you how to install your DVD burner into your computer. Now the first step is to install the screws inside the player dependent on your machine you may have different screws or different slots. Some machines have rails that go right here and others have these round type of screws that go on here that slide into the machine and other ones you just slide in and put screws through the side of the case into this to hold it into place. In our case we are using these little slide screws, these came with our computer so we are not going to be utilizing the ones that came out of the package. Like I said you just have to look at how all your other drives are installed and go off that. So we'll install the screws. Now one thing to keep in mind is this metal is very thin so you don't need to torque these very hard, just install them like so, a little twist and that is really all it takes. Now once you have all your screws installed we're going to take this drive, insert it in here like this so it is going to lock into place and now the hardware aspect of this is complete. Next we are going to install the IDE Cable, being very cautious not to bend any of the little pens that go in here, these IDE Cables tend to only go in one way which is the reason you have this key up top. So we are going to go ahead and install that now, pushing it snugly in. Now we are going to take our power cable and install in here. It only installs one way. One final thing to keep in mind is you do have jumper settings and if it is plugged into the top drive it is going to be a master and if plugged in the next one on he IDE Cable it is going to be the slave and cable select basically tells the drive to try to figure it out for itself. You are just going to want to make sure they are properly configured for how you have it installed. My name is James and I just showed you how to install a DVD burner."