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March 3rd, 2004 17:00

Installing Nec 1300a DVD Burner

My new burner just arrived and I'm already having problems....  aaaagghhhhhh.

There's no manual so I'm winging it.  I read that it was very easy to install, just disconnect the old cd burner and reconnect everything to the new unit.  Hah! I tried that and all I got was a frozen blue screen with the big Dell logo on it and some beeping (didn't think to count the beeps).  

My setup is a Dimension 4400 / Pentium 4 / 1.70Ghz / 512 Ram / WinXP Home.  Bay 1 is the original cd drive used for reading/playing cds only.  Bay 2 is my old cd-r burner.  I wanted to replace the old burner with this new model for cdr/rw and dvdr/rw; is this what I should be doing?  Do I need to switch the master/slave hookup (I assume the master is the original cd drive)?  Should I be downloading some drivers or something before I try to install the hardware?

What am I doing wrong?