Sata power supply with ide only mother board?

From what I was able to find it looks like the board is set for IDE Interface connections for the hard drives. But you can make it accept SATA Drives by adapters that plug into the Power Supply cables that go into the hard drive.

I'll show some links below that will show you the adapters you will need.

The link below shows the Cable that would plug into one of the power supply cables and go into the SATA Drive to give it SATA Interface.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-4-PIN-IDE-Molex-To-2-X-15-Pin-SATA-Power-Adapter-cable-Fast-From-USA-/270963453066?pt=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&hash=item3f16ae2c8a

The link below shows you the cable you need that will supply the Power to the Sata Drive. It too plugs into one of the cables that come out of the Power Supply and goes into the Sata Drive.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-4-PIN-IDE-To-Serial-SATA-Power-Cable-adapter-/270693224712?pt=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&hash=item3f0692d108

this will depend on HARD DRIVE whether ide the ide will have 40 pins or sata the sata will have 8 copper slat type also PSU power supply unit ide or sata power connecters these days they usually supply both next MOTHERBOARD if has ide and sata plugs the ide will be a flat ribbon type with 40 pin plug ends the sata will be 8 copper slat type usually a bit thicker
most power supply units will fit but to make absolutely sure you could take some measurents inside you computers frame to make sure it will fit also you might need to get a heavy duty with plenty of wattage if you have added more ram another hard drive or a bigger one or any other devices cd/dvd drives then you will need more wattage to boot up
hope this helps
6 PCI slots, supports Socket 478 processors up to 3-GHz, two IDE, on-board sound.

Cons: Only supports one diskette drive

The Bottom Line: Good for building a modest system. It is still useful today. Reliable performance. 6 PCI slots make is very expandable.

molex to sata converters

ide lead which will locate itself by the blank

http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B0001Y8UI4/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all

molex 4 pin power lead

I'LL TELL YOU UPFRONT i HAVE ONLY INSTALLED SATA ON A NEW SYSTEM SO MY ANSWER MAY NOT BE CORRECT IN ALL SITUATIONS
Question is vague. Are you replacing a drive or building a new system? SATA drives have a dedicated plug on the Mother Board. Of course you already know you can't replace an IDE with a SATA without an adapter (Ebay has them for about $8) or the Bios is incompatible. The power is on the Motherboard and does not have a connector from the power supply like an IDE has.

That motherboard doesnt support ATA it supports upto 6 SATA devices which is actually better and faster. You will need to take your DVD/RW back and ask to swap for a SATA and also make sure you buy a SATA cable and good thing is these are actually cheaper and faster. Its actually a very nice motherboard dont be disappointed. Cheers from Scott and plz vote

If all the motherboard has is IDE connectors,then you can with an add in card. To do this you need to run the installation floppy during a fresh windows installation when it prompts for 3rd party scsi or raid drivers. I'd take the easy road & install a slave drive on the IDE or run an external hard drive in a usb port. Or the ultimate option,build a system using a board with sata on it. Prices are way down on hardware in general,but it's not going to stay that way.

If your 2nd DVD burner is on IDE interface, you may need to get an IDE to SATA cable. Please refer to the picture below as to how it looks like:

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...

I have successfully connected a older. 20 GB drive to a computer with a 2. sata connection on the mother board.

Buy trial and error I found that connecting a power cable to the converter and the hard drive was the only way to get the Bios To recognize the drive.
Done sucessfuly with a 40GB drive as well, Set drive to master.

Hi,
Make sure the power cable of SATA hard drive is properly plugged in or not.. It is possible.. Try with SATA 0..
Thank you........

Update: SATA II drives do have jumpers to make them backwards compatible with 1.5 Gb/s (SATA II drives are 3.0 Gb/s). So if your system is older and can only handle SATA (first Gen) then you have to add a jumper (Seagate has the jumper setting on the drive but sometimes supplies no jumper i.e. you have to have your own).