"pcbldrNinetyEight" <pcbldrninetyeight.com> wrote in message
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> gecko <alpha@olympus.net> wrote in
> news:71e8s31hm7ff8nc4v951sfblan5prrbmra@4ax.com:
>
>> As I indicated in my earlier posts, I mistakenly bought a SATA DVD
>> burner drive instead of a PATA drive. Anyway, I had to buy some
>> cables to hook it up. It is now working.
>>
>> But I now have two more questions:
>>
>> 1) At the beginning of boot I see a new message I never saw before -
>> Press TAB key into user window.
>> I ignored it and there seemed to be no effect.
>> I tried the tab key and nothing happened - it was if I ignored
>> it.
>> So, I am wondering what this is all about.
>>
>> 2) I am surprised to see there is no connection to connect my
>> speakers (via mobo) up to the drive.
>
> Typically a four conductor cable that carries the analog audio signal
> from a CD/DVD player or burner to the MOBO audio in connector. I am very
> surprised that your MOBO has no such connector.

I think its the drive that is missing the connector!