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yeah the new drive never came with a new cable? would that make a differance?

even matching the symbols to the old drive it does not load even to the BIOS menus just a blank screen, but the drive will open when pressed to.

i only have one little plastic bit, so i swap it to the new one but still no luck

[ATTACH]454.vB5-legacyid=864[/ATTACH][ATTACH]455.vB5-legacyid=865[/ATTACH] these are the backs of the drives

i took the drive back to the shop but they showed it working and would not exchange it

yeah i put all the parts in the same place with each, it turns on then just crashes

yeah when i put the pld one back in it all works, is there a chance that the pc is too old for the drive?

its an old computer running windows xp, case only has one bay for the cd drive so i took the old cd drive out and put the new dvd drive in, just tries to load but screen goes off.

whats a MOLEX?

ok i'll take it back and see if i can exchange it, thanks for your help

yeah i've done that but still no luck?

its IDE

yes it was, my pc has only one port for the drive, so i need to remove the old one.

hi all, im new on here hoping to get a little help. I have an old pc with only one cd drive on, I got a second hand dvd rw drive but after i remove the cd drive and replace it, after i turn the pc back on the boot screen comes on the the screen goes off and i have to turn the pc off by the button. thanks for your time for reading this.