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Anything special for a replacement CD Drive for Dell Dimension 2400?

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Felecha

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I had a thread earlier, about the problem with my Mom's CD tray spontaneously popping out and back in

this is it

Well, I'm going back to visit again and thought I would just for goodness sake get her a new CD drive. Before I left I opened the case and pulled the power cable out of the CD. That DID stop it.

All I want is a CD player. No need for DVD or burner, just a player. There is almost no need for a CD at all, but once or twice I have wanted to put in a CD, and they are not all that expensive. I hope

Just wondering whether I can simply go to NewEgg and get a low-end vanilla CD drive. But is there anything about it being a Dell that means I need to get a Dell drive?
 
Nope, nothin' special.

But burners these days are the same price as players.
 
Your link is broken - but, all you need is the right form factor and interface (PATA or SATA) and the right jumper setting if PATA.
 
thanks, fixed the link

and thanks for the confirmation of what I sorta thought would be the case. I'm perfectly confident of changing it out, but always that lurking worry - did Dell build this so I had to have a dell drive

OK, I'm set
 
maybe not set after all.

Do I need to find out if it's IDE or SATA? I see that distinction at NewEgg, but have searched a bit at Dell, hoping I could run down a spec for the Dimension 2400 CD Drive
 
Dells support website will give you all your info, you will need the servcie tag # on machine, if your not sure where it is there is even a link to show you where tag is located.

DELL SUPPORT

If you had the case open to pull the power cable you should have been able to tell whether it was an ide or sata drive....odds are its an ide drive, if machine is roughly 5yrs old, my money is on IDE.
 
wasnt thinking of IDE /SATA when I had it open. But I too would bet on IDE at this point. The cables I saw in there were like an inch and a half wide and grey-white. I dont remember specifically the cable to the CD, but pushing cables out of the way to stick the RAM in, they did not look like the pictures I just saw at NewEgg for SATA cables - red and thinner.

So I think it must be IDE

 
I took a quick look at Newegg's CDROM drives. Including shipping, you can get a DVD writer for the same price. Newegg has several for $23 with free shipping.
 
interesting - I went to that exact Dell link and didnt put 2 and 2 together. I looked down the list for any spec on a CD drive, and missed where it said

Drives
Externally accessible two 5.25-inch bays
one 3.5-inch bay
Internally accessible
one bay for 1-inch?high IDE hard drive

There was the answer, right there. There is a bay for an IDE

OK, now I really AM all set

Thanks again
 
Well, these guys know it's an IDE CDROM drive because the Dell 2400 doesn't HAVE any SATA ports on its motherboard.

The DVD/CDROM drive goes in one of the two externally-accessible 5.25-inch slots at the top front of the Dell. Examine how the two cables are connected, remove the old drive, install the new drive, and re-install the two cables. All the cables are indexed so it's impossible to insert the connectors backwards.

There's a Master/Slave/CS jumper at the rear of the CD/DVD drive. If you look at the old drive you can see which pins are jumpered and match that on the new drive. It's likely the CS (cable select) pins are jumpered.
 
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