How to Install a DVD-ROM Drive

Video Transcript

"You have been using your computer for just about anything else lately. You have been checking your e-mails, playing games, talking to friends, why not watch DVD movies on it as well? My name is James, computer hardware training coordinator for InterConnection and I am going to show you how to install a DVD-ROM into your computer. Now, the first step is to install the screws on the side of the player. Dependant on your machine, you may have different screws or different slots. Some machines have rails that go right here, others have these round type of screws that go on here that slide into the machine. 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 in the package. Like I said you just have to look at how all your other drives are installed and go of that. So, we will install the screws. Now one thing to keep in mind is that this metal is very thin. So you don't need to tore 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 are going to take this drive and insert it in here like this. It is going to lock into place. Now the hardware aspect of this, is complete. Next we are going to install the IDE cable. Be very cautious not to bend any of the little pins that go in here. These IDE cables tend to only go in one way, which is the reason you have these 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 if you have jumper settings, if it is plugged into the top drive it is the master, if it is plugged into the next one on the IDE cable it is going to be slave. And cable select basically tells the drive or it tries to figure it out for itself. You just have to make sure that it is properly configured, for however you have it installed. My name is James, and I just showed you how to install a DVD-ROM drive."