Modding What can i do about this??

I have a CD-RW drive as in sig, but i have a problem. It has a bigass ribbon cable coming out the back connecting to an scsi card in a pci clot at the back, i didn't put this in. It was fitted when the drive was fitted and it is a pain in the ass because it spans across the whole case and looks v untidy and covers a bunch of stuff up on my mobo and it would looka lot better without it. Any ideas on what i can do?? i currently have it folded in half and zip tied but it is still bad i am gonna order some spiral wrap soon for the rest of thewires but it will look crap with this big lumpa cable in the middle thanks

 

Get a longer scsi cable.

Do the zip tie thing to lessen the cross section, and then route it down the drive cages, along the floor and then upto the scsi card.

It's that or ditch the drive and get an IDE burner.

 

Or still get a longer one and route it along the panal on the back of the motherboard. If you don't have a hole on the bottom for it, then just take out the trusty dremal and slice yourself a newone.

 

I would try rerouting, I've heard scsi cables are bad about getting interference when you fold them on themselves.Have you had any burner troubles since you've zip tied them?

 

hmm where can i get a longer one? this one is erm... about 24 inches and not long enough to do that

 

make it into a round cable mate just pull all the wires apart cable tie them at each end then cover with spiral wrap thats what i have done with mine looks neat

 

won't it screw up the cable? i know ppl do it with ata/66/100 cables but never heard of scsi ones being done

 

you can get nice tidy machine-rounded scsi cables now ...

 

where from??

 

here.
or here.
or even here.

thats just 3 minutes worth of poking about on hotbot ...im sure you could probably find more, and closer to you ..


and btw .... the ORB addy in you signature is the wrong one ... right click on the "compare url" and copy shortcut ... the cgi changes it when you click it ...

 

thanks man, also ta for pointing out the link, i'll go fix it now

 

as i said m8 i hve done mine and it works fine no probs what so ever just go for it mate why buy a round cable when you can do it yourself i cut inbetween the wires with a razorblade just do about 5 or 6 at a time and dont do the cuts next to each other and take your time

 

well it is ok at the mo, i realised there were 2 connecters on it, one close to the middle and one on the end and it was on the middle one so i put it on the end one which lengthened it adn i have it folded out of the way, i have just bought a round cable for my hdd so i may aswell buy one for the scsi to keep the look going

 

Yeah make sure u match the colour with your IDE rounded cables

 

hehe i am going for all bloo bloo leds, bloo cc and black cc, bloo rounded cables and spray fans bloo maybe of paint them with uv stuff