Picture of hp m8100y mother board sata and cd rom cable

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Look for more power connectors on the cables already powering devices. Especially check the entire length of the power cable terminating at your main hard drive. It is ok to use multiple connectors on the same cable simultaneously.
If you do need a splitter, I recommend this one.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812198015&cm_re=sata_power_splitter-_-12-198-015-_-Product

It is possible that when psu shorted it shorted part of the mother board. Try going into device manager right on the cd-rom in the list and choose search for new hard ware in the drop down menu. If this doesn't work go back into device manager right click the cd-rom and uninstall the cd-rom and reboot the pc. If it does not auto find the cd-rom that way, the mother board is probably messed up. Oh yeah try unplugging the ribbon cable for the cd-rom from the mother board and plug it back in also.

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Sata cables on both ends have female connectors. Just find a "L" shaped connector on the back of your cd rom and to the motherboard( usually about the size of a usb connector but narrower a little bit, sometimes color blue or black depending on the brand of your motherboard with a lable on it like "sata 1" or "sata2" ) and connect the cables on each end. Ther's only one connector at the back of the cd rom but on the motherboard, you can choose any sata connector available.

Check the cables, either DC supply to CD Drive or Data cable from CD Drive to Mainboard (Sata or Pata connection)

If its having sata connection you can see sata ports on *********** board using sata cable

1.Pic of sata cable



2.Pic of Sata ports on mother board



You can connect any one of the ports. and you need to go to bios and enable the sata ports if its not done already..


If you have a normal CD Drive you can connect with IDE cable.

See the pics below

What mother board is it? you have sata and ide drives.. new technology is sata which is connected with sata cable to *********** board and appropriate pover coard, the older teconlogy is ide, which is connected with ide (master slave) cable frm you motehr board to you drive... just post what mother board and i could be more specific...

WHEN BOOTING TO LOAD WINDOWS XP START AFRESH BY FORMATING YOUR HDD FIRST AND WHEN U DONE BOOT YOUR SYSTEM UP FROM YOUR CD ROM THE DRIVERS WILL GET DETECTED AUTOMATIC AND THAN START YOUR INSTALLION.

In that case ur IDE/SATA cable may have some fault...