Geek help

[lesliepear]

1. To connect a DVD/VCR to a tv - is it better to use a coax (cable tv type) cable or the red/yellow/white kind (I think they are called RCA plugs)? Currently the tv is connected by the cable - what is the difference?

2. I need help installing the second drive in my husband's system. I see the original drive - there are 2 bays each filled with a DVD drive - I am not sure how you connect the cables from drive #1 to drive #2 (I see a power supply cable for it) and where you screw drive #2 into. (The burners were easy because they replaced existing drives).

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Comments

[mayna.livejournal.com]

If you are running your cable through the dvd/vcr then you use the coax. if you're not t hen you use the rca jacks.

For installing another drive in the computer, you have an IDE cable and you chain link the drives along it. set the first one as 'master' in the settings on the back of it and the other one as the slave. then in the bios you make sure that you have the settings as auto and not 'none' for the ide detection.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Thanks - input is going cable to dvd/vcr and then to tv (no box), so I guess the coax is fine.

I see the IDE cable and can probably find where drive #2 goes, but am not sure where it attaches on the box. I guess I'll have to check the model # on Dell and see.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Do you think I'd be better off hooking the dvd/vcr up using the 3 colored (red,yellow,white) cables and not the coax between them? It would be an easy switch.