Elia1995 wrote:The TUV4X case doesn't have any PSU, I just plugged in my usual testing ATX PSU to give it power.
And that is the only IDE CD/DV […]
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The TUV4X case doesn't have any PSU, I just plugged in my usual testing ATX PSU to give it power.
And that is the only IDE CD/DVD-ROM drive I have, since there aren't any SATA ports on that board I can't even test in another optical drive.
I tried all the other optical drives I found in "the loot-box", but it seems they're all dead or got some problems:
some don't open at all, while some open but don't read any disk, so I'm stuck with this only 100% working IDE optical drive for all of those computers at the moment.
I then of course have some SATA ones, but I can't plug them into a board that doesn't have any SATA beginning with.
Only a single IDE optical drive? I'd say it's time for you to do some second hand shopping 😜
Where I live, IDE drives are still easy to find, often cost something like €2,50 untested for a DVD drive or even DVD burner. There's little reason why you should put up with messing with too little spare parts, it will suck your time and be more frustrating for little reason.
Outside the optical IDE drives, there are 'options' on using SATA drives with SATA2IDE adapters or using some PCI SATA controller, but I never messed with the latter and only have limited experience using an adapter for a harddrive (and none when it comes to optical drives).
It's possible the optical drives you gotten were defective when they ended up in your hands. I've had good experience in getting second hand stuff untested for cheap, but these were all gotten separately.
But my advice would be to simply get more IDE optical drives, these will not remain inexpensive and plentiful for long I think, so better stock up while you can and save yourself hours of frustration 😜