Craiguk Posted April 1, 2020 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 Hi everyone, my IDE cable upgrade finally come after faffing about trying to get it to fit I get error 09, swapped back to stock IDE boots perfectly. I've attached a screenshot of the cable I used and people in the reviews say it worked for them but I'm not sure there true as the IDE connectors seam the wrong way round. Thanks all for your advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_Dave Posted April 1, 2020 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 Check this out it's a amazon cable https://www.facebook.com/bobbensun/videos/10158104831388708/ Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It get's the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted April 2, 2020 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 Which color ends did you connect to the motherboard and hard drive? If you have the ends wrong, Cable Select will no longer work and you have to set the hard drive or IDE-to-SATA adapter as MASTER. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craiguk Posted April 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 47 minutes ago, KaosEngineer said: Which color ends did you connect to the motherboard and hard drive? If you have the ends wrong, Cable Select will no longer work and you have to set the hard drive or IDE-to-SATA adapter as MASTER. Black to mother board, grey to the DVD Rom which I had a twist 180 as the notch was the wrong way round and blue to the HDD, that's the only way it would fit. From left starting with black all the notches are on the left if it's lay flat looking at it. I haven't got my Sata adapter still waiting for delivery but I did just the the IDE upgrade in a old crystal xbox 15 years ago and it worked first time mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craiguk Posted April 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 11 hours ago, SS_Dave said: Check this out it's a amazon cable https://www.facebook.com/bobbensun/videos/10158104831388708/ Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It get's the job done but it's nothing like the real thing. Thanks dave mate but that link isn't working my end pal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted April 2, 2020 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 3 hours ago, Craiguk said: Black to mother board, grey to the DVD Rom which I had a twist 180 as the notch was the wrong way round and blue to the HDD, that's the only way it would fit. From left starting with black all the notches are on the left if it's lay flat looking at it. I haven't got my Sata adapter still waiting for delivery but I did just the the IDE upgrade in a old crystal xbox 15 years ago and it worked first time mate. Yes, a standard PC cable doesn't fit with cable connectors as the locations they are meant to be installed at. Blue is to be the host (motherboard), Grey - IDE SLAVE device (DVD) and Black - IDE MASTER device (Hard drive). However, in the Xbox, the cable is flipped end-over-end so black connects to the motherboard and blue to the hard drive/IDE-to-SATA adapter. Doing so defeats the cable's built-in CABLE SELECT function; therefore, you have to set the hard drive to MASTER instead of Cable Select. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craiguk Posted April 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) Thanks for the information mate I wired it Black to motherboard blue to HDD and Grey to the DVD drive didn't use Sata adapter as I'm waiting for it to come just changed the cable and get Error 09, thanks for your help pal I appreciate it. Edited April 2, 2020 by Craiguk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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