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Just a tip for next time:

Newegg.com is the best place I have found to buy this stuff. And most of their stuff is better than Dell's OEM or anything you'll get at CompUSA/Circuit city, usually at lower prices. I suggest Lite-on drives, they're priced right, and came highly recommended when I considered buying a new CD burner.

This stuff is really easy to deal with now, and should be cake. Good luck!
 
I am a computer Deity!

Well, maybe not but I think I've got everything okay. And of course, I couldn't have done it without the help of all you guys.

Hardest stuff was snapping the RAM in (afraid of breaking it) and surprisingly, getting the front cover off the Dell. As always, it was hard to get the appropriate cables to stretch far enough so I could plug them in.

And of course, the thing was filthy. Glad I picked up an extra can of compressed air.

I did change ide ata/atapi controller to "DMA if available"

I ran the devices as cable select because I didn't want to pull my old ROM drive to find the settings. (cable select is what Dell recommends.)

RAM was recognized without any problem. (Again, I recommend Crucial. Price was comparable or cheaper than any other sources I saw and the computer scanner worked well.)

Scott, I printed out all your notes before I started and you say to run currrent ROM and new DVD on secondary on secondary IDE.

If it's not too much trouble, how would I do that.

Again, thanks everybody.
 
You'll need your manual (or it could be on the system board as well) to find the primary
and secondary IDE channels (these would be where the flat ribbon cables connect to
on the system board).

The two ROM drives should be on the secondary channel together (there should be two
device connectors on the ribbon cable), while the HDD should be on the primary channel.

Chances are, the HDD was already on the primary and the current ROM drive was on the
secondary... if you added the new drive on the same cable as the currnet ROM drive, you
have already done this.

Congrats! Notice any improvement? :naughty:

Scott
 
From what I can tell, it looks like you're right and I'm set up properly.

As far as improvement, Microsoft Money is noticeably faster, as is Nikon Capture (the picture editing program for my Nikon SLR).

Now I can't wait to get to the store and pick-up the proper CD-R's so I can see what LightScribe looks like.
 
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