[Cold Heat]

BTW, your hard drive also uses these same cables. A single dirty pin can cause all this mess.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Pictures:

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Generic flat IDE Cable:

for CD drives and hard Disks

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Generic SATA Cables.... for newer hard Drives only.....

Your instruction book for the computer might be nice to have at some point, we still have decided whether we have a hardware problem or a software problem.