I have an Intel SR440BX Motherboard and I can't figure out how to connect a CD-RW, DVD-ROM, and CD drive if someone could please help me it would be good

here is a link to the intel site for information on the motherboard
http://support.intel.com/support/mot...40bx/Index.htm

How old is the motherboard? Mine came with a booklet with diagrams showing me where to connect devices.

Intel® SR440BX Motherboard Connectors

Usualy the DVD/CD would be the secondary master.
Your hard drive(s) being on the primary ribbon.

Is this one drive you are trying to connect? If it's 2 then put the writer as master and the rom as slave.

If this is three separate optical devices, then put the hard disk on Primary Master and the CD-ROM on Primary Slave, then connect the CD-RW to Secondary Master and the DVD-ROM to Secondary Slave.

The reasons for this are:

1. Hard disk has to be primary master to boot from it on most/all PCs;
2. CD-Writing from the hard disk will be more reliable if they're on separate cables;
3. CD-RW is on the fastest position (master) of the secondary cable;
4. When you're watching DVDs, you'll want the DVD-ROM drive on a separate cable to the hard disk for the fastest data transfer.

I do not have a manual for it because it is around 5 years old and the computer place in my town sucks and didn't give the manual with the computer, but I have the cd for it

Most manuals exist on-line. This was the board diagrams:

http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-013653.htm

What exact problems are you having? Connecting to the board or connecting on the ribbons? Or?

As DJNafey asked: is this 3 drives you are connecting? If so follow his directions.

it doesn't show the bootup screen and it says check connection with computer
what is going on?

Originally Posted by Pip

it doesn't show the bootup screen and it says check connection with computer
what is going on?

just to clarify:

What does not show the bootup screen & says check connection?

Are you saying that you cannot boot? No BIOS POST? Is "it" the monitor that is looking for a connection? Sorry for my confusion

yes, but the computer seems to be working except for it doesn't show one of the cd drives in my computer.

My computer is a pentium 3 450 Mhz
192 megs of ram
Lite on CD-rom drive
Lite on CD-R/RW 12X
Samsung 12.9 Gig IDE hard drive
Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 MX 64 MB
Windows 98 SE

Do you see all your drives in the BIOS POST?

Also it might be helpful if you ran this scan and posted the results:

http://www.d-a-l.com/index.php?page=hardwarescan