Do motherboards come with.......

[Endarkened]

Do motherboards come with the necessary cables for hooking up the CD-ROM/DVD drive, CD-RW, hard drive, floppy drive etc.? I'm thinking about getting either an Epox, an MSI, or a Gigabyte mobo for the Athlon/DDR system I'm building. So, would these come with all those necessities?

Thanks,

Endarkened

 

[m1ke101]

i believe mine did come with ide cables to hook up my cd and cdrw. i have an epox 8k7a.

 

[MichaelD]

Mobos typically come with one floppy cable and two IDE cables. Some only come with one IDE cable. Check with the manufacturer.

 

[sekser]

i just got a new mobo over the weekend, it included a floppy, ide and a highspeed ide cable.

 

[Kravahn]

It really depends on the mfr, but more importantly, whether or not it's retail-boxed or oem. oem rarely has all the cables, while retail more often than not does.

 

[eLiu]

Most retail boxed mobos come with 1) floppy cable 2) ATA33 cable and 3) ATA100 cable. The ATA33 is for CD, DVD, and CD-RW. The ATA100 (which is back compatible with ATA66) is for your HD.

However, it does depend on the manufacturer.

-eric

 

[Reel]

<< Most retail boxed mobos come with 1) floppy cable 2) ATA33 cable and 3) ATA100 cable. The ATA33 is for CD, DVD, and CD-RW. The ATA100 (which is back compatible with ATA66) is for your HD.
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I just got an Epox 8k7a and it came with all the above and a difficult to comprehend manual.