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Secondly find a spare power cable running from the power unit and connect that to the back of the hard drive.

Finally you need to connect your SATA cable. SATA cables are small and thin with little flat connectors at the end. Connect one end to the bottom of your hard drive and the other end goes directly onto your motherboard. These vary in location depending on your motherboard so have a check around.

Once it's in, put everything back together and boot your computer up. If the computer doesn't recognise it you may need to get software from your hardware manufacturer to pick it up (though it should pick it up automatically).]]> Tutorials http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=7 Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:19:21 +0000 http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=6 Tutorials http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=6 Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:04:12 +0000 http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=5 When to use them
Crossover cables are used when you are linking two computers directly. When using hubs, switches, routers, etc you want regular network cables but if you are linking two computers from one network port to the other you need a crossover cable.

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Of course one problem is if you have just wired everything up and taken up half the carpets in your house. Putting a new cable in doesn’t sound like something you will be wanting to do any time soon.

There are two ways to work round this (you could also buy a network hub but that's expensive and pointless so I won't be covering that solution). The first is to get a connector and stick two crossover cables together, so the wires crossover twice and therefore cancel each other out.

The second solution is to get a connector that does this for you. You plug one end of the connector into your computer and the other end has a port to slot your regular network cable into. It’s just like a little box that does the crossover for you.]]> Tutorials http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=5 Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:16:46 +0000 http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=4
Now get your PCI card and insert it into the spot. Push it firmly until it lines up, you will notice the metal strip end will replace the area where the old metal strip you pushed out used to be.

Once it's in place and fits nicely lining up with the edge of the case you want to screw the metal strip into place so that it can't move. Now close your case and switch your PCI back on. Chances are it will be picked up automatically but if not go to install new hardware or use whatever software you were supplied with.]]> Tutorials http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=4 Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:43:40 +0000 http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=3
They can co-exist quite peacefully though. That said it isn’t plug and play. I never expected it to be though. I thought when I got the first router it wouldn’t be but that plugged in and worked fine pretty much straight away. And to be honest, this wasn’t much harder.

First thing you want to do is to plug your new router into a separate computer disconnected from the network and head to setup. Here you want to change its address on the network.

The main problem I had was that both routers were trying to use port 192.168.1.1, which was not a good situation. So I connected the second router to my laptop and changed its port to 192.168.1.5.

Then you connect everything together. In this case I connected a cable into the uplink port of my first router and plugged the other end into one of the standard network ports on the second router. I’m guessing you can also plug a cable into a standard network port on the first one too, though I didn’t try that.

As only one actually needs to route internet traffic and such I then went to my second router and disabled the local DHCP server. This one was basically just acting as more ports to my main router.

And that is all you need to do? Simple huh? Well actually save the relaxation for when you actually have it working as you know how reliable technology is ;). Once done, sit back, log onto IM and brag about your advanced network.]]> Tutorials http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=3 Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:35:16 +0000 http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=2 News & Updates http://www.hardwaretutorials.com/index.php?itemid=2 Tue, 24 May 2005 07:59:00 +0000