I'm setting up a spare parts box for a friend's child and I am having a strange problem. The computer has no IDE connections, so I hooked up an IDE controller card in order to use an IDE DVD drive.

So, I dug into my comp and replaced the noisy cpu fan. Hurray! Nice and quiet now. In the process, I had to remove the primary and secondary IDE cables, in addition to all the RAM. When I finished up, ...