I am unable to connect a cd rom from an old pc to my new emachines because there is no "ribbon" to connect the cd to? How else can I connect it to the motherboard? The CD doesn't have a SATA connection.

i bought.a new dell laptop. Modle-N4010. It's battery is not charging but this is working when attached the adapter from theswitch otherwise it is not working.pl.help me.

Have you have tried shutting down the pc, and then turning it back on? if that has forced it to close the drive, it's likely dead.
there is a chance the power cable fell off the back, but it's unlikely.

If it's dead then you'll probably need to swap it for a new one. Best to take the old one out and down your local computer shop, pc world, dixons, or something.

I reckon it's an EIDE drive cos of the 52x CD-ROM indicating it's age, so it'll have two connectors, a flat ribbon and a white power connector. Just make sure you get a replacement with the same connections.
Most new drives will be SATA and incompatible.

I have a Toshiba Satellite L355D that would not detect the CD Rom in the BIOS although the Rom appeared to powered up and running. I traced the problem to a ribbon cable connector that was between the jack the CD Rom plugged into and the jack on the mother board. The ribbon cable plug at the MB had backed out and was only making the power connections to the Rom making the Rom appear to be operating.

hi first open the case make sure the power is not plug in. second look for the hard drive , it s right next to cd rom right corner , make sure the data cable ribbon is correctly seated next , check the power make sure its connected . now the fun part is next . here how your going to find out if you hrddrive is working remove the ribbon data cable from the cd rom also the power ,now remove the ribbon from the hard-drive next place the ribbon from the cd rom to the harddrive next make sure ever thing connected right . power the computer go to the bois and see if the hard drive is being read. if it is then ribbon bad ,ifnot your hard-drive is bad if is bad put ever thing back in place take your hard drive out and replace with same bigger gb thanks hope this helps

HI there,

Your complete user guide with parts and disassembly info is here:

http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=T Series&model=T2742
Best Regards,

Marcus

Try this Boot to the BIOS

press ALT+E (single Beep)
ALT+F another beep
ALT+B system will reboot and re-detect drives

once done, you should be able to install XP on HDD

Sounds like your hard drive failed. Memory is cheap, so it's not an expensive fix and easy to do yourself with minimal skills. Once you open the case, there should be 4 screws holding the HDD in place, one fat ribbon type cable and one connector with 3 or 4 wires (power). You can just pop a new HDD in and reconnect and use your software disks to reload the operating system. Most computer repair shops can get the data off of your old drive and load it onto your new one.
By the way, you wouldn't happen to be a Limewire user would you? There seems to be a new trend connecting HDD failure and Limewire use. This is not yet proven but being investigated. It is likely not Limewire, but malware attached to downloaded media.

you have to check if the setup of both cd if they are Master or slave or cable , and check the cable that connect to cd before you load windows

Try telling it to boot the CD instead of the disk for now, since you need to install from that...or perhaps a newer OS.

You should be using two, two connector IDE ribbon cables if I understand your questions correctly.

On IDE 0 you connect the hard drive and one cd drive.
On IDE 1 you connect the second cd drive.

You will need to make sure the jumper settings on the drives are correctly set.