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I bought a Western Digital 120GB EIDE HardDrive but returned it because it was making too much noise. They shipped me back a 160GB HD at no extra charge...but what they didn't tell me is that it's not IDE or EIDE, it's Serial ATA ....and I dunno how to hook that up to my PC. Apparently it doens't work the same as Master/Slave, but I don't even know what plug goes into it. I have an Asus A7N8X mobo if that helps. I also currently have a 40GB Maxtor IDE HardDrive installed in my PC and intend to keep it there hopefully with this new 160GB drive.


Anyone know how to hook one of these up?

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If you don't see an SATA hookup on your motherboard, your not going to be able to, I've seen very vew SATA cards as well, most with only a single slot.

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If you don't see an SATA hookup on your motherboard...

Yeah, the "Deluxe" version of the A7N8X has SATA, but the straight-up A7N8X doesn't.

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