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7 installing an optical drive – Asus P3-P5G31 User Manual

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ASUS P3-P5G31

2.7

Installing an optical drive

The system comes with a 5.25-inch drive bay for an optical drive.

2. Drive a screw on the top right

screw hole on both sides of

the drive. The screw holes are

approximately 5 cm from the

drive front panel and 2 cm from

the drive base.

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3. Lay the system on its side in a flat

and stable surface.

4. Carefully pull the IDE and audio

cables and plugs out from the bay

until the cables are long enough to

connect to the drive.

Audio cable

and plug

IDE cable

and plug

5. Connect the IDE cable to the IDE

interface at the back of the drive.

Match the red stripe on the cable

with Pin 1 on the IDE interface.

6. Connect the optical drive audio

cable to the 4-pin connector at the

back of the optical drive.

To install an optical drive:
1. Remove the front panel assembly following the instructions in section “2.3.2

Removing the front panel assembly.”

The IDE and audio plugs are pre-connected to the primary IDE and internal

audio connectors on the motherboard. If you disconnected these plugs, refer to

page 4-6 and 4-8 for their respective locations.

If you plan to install an IDE hard disk drive, set the optical drive as a slave

device before installing it to the system. Refer to the optical drive documentation

for details on how to set the drive as slave device.

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