Three different staff at the computer parts store told me NOT to use the power connector on the adapter to power my IDE drives, because I have MOLEX connectors and the drives do not draw power from the mother board. Is the adapter itself powered from the power supply? Is there any reason why I need to connect the adapter to the power supply with the drive powered through the adapter for it to work? I am still using my original power supply which has the molex connectors for powering my IDE drives. I havent yet turned on the computer for the first time, but if the drives are not recognized a dozen things could potentially be wrong and I want to make sure I have the adapters connected right.ġ. That is a good thing as it raised more questions.

I've read all the posts on IDE to SATA converters on this forum as well as everything else I could find. I want to make sure I get it right since one of the posts on the forum said if you get it wrong you can fry the board, and in any case, if it doesn't work I wouldn't know specifically what doesn't work, so best to get it right. It is seldom specified what they tried besides the switch in both positions. All over the Internet some people report that the adapters work well and immediately, and others couldnt get the things to work no matter what they tried. The directions are extremely vague, and the actual setup seemingly tricky. My family had to come up with part of the money for the new motherboard, processor and RAM. I can't afford to buy more hardware at the moment. I just bought three SY-BIR-IDESA IDE to SATA bidirectional converters to connect my IDE hard drive, CD drive, and dvd drive to the SATA connectors on my new motherboard.

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