HP 9310i User Manual

HP CD-Writer Plus

user’s guide

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Table of Contents

Contents of th e El e ctronic User’s Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Installation Notes

Read the Install a tion Poster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

How to Set the CD-Wri te r P lus as Master or Slave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

How to Find the ID E Con nectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

How to Connect th e IDE D ata Cable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

How to Connect an Audio Cable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

About Making CDs

When Should I Use CD-R (Recordable or Write-Once) Discs? . . . . . . . .13

When Should I Us e CD - RW (ReWritable) Discs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

How do I Make CDs Tha t Ca n be Read on Other Computers?. . . . . . . .14

When is the DirectCD Software Useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

How do I Make Audi o CDs?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Can I Avoid Swapping Audio CDs In an d Out of the Drive? . . . . . . . . .15

Can I Use the New 80 M i nute Audio CDs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Solving Installation Problems

Things to Try Firs t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Installation Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Warranty Information

Hewlett-Packa r d L i m ited Warranty Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Customer Support

HP Customer Care O nline www.hpcdwriter.com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Your Local Res e ller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

HP Customer Care b y P ho n e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Before You Conta ct HP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Telephone Num b e r s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Returning a Dri v e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

2 Contents of the Electronic User’s Guide

Contents of the Electronic User’s Guide

Additional information is available in the electronic User’s Guide that was installed you your CD-Writer’s program group. The electronic User’s Guide provides hardware and software information that is not included in this manual. The guide is provided in HTML format and uses your web browser to display its contents.

The User’s Guide provides information about:

■ Starting and using CD-Writer software

■ Sharing CDs

■ CD care

■ Troubleshooting

■ Product specifications

■ Warranty

■ Software license agreements

■ Regulatory information

■ How to contact HP

Installation Notes

Read the Installation Poster

The Quick-Start installation poster de scribes how to install your CDWriter Plus drive. Follow the instructions on the poster and refer to this chapter of the User’s Guide if you need additional information about:

■ How to set the CD-Writer Plus as Master or Slave

■ How to find the IDE connectors on your computer

■ How to connect the IDE data cable

■ How to connect an audio cable

How to Set the CD-Writer Plus as Master or Slave

When you place Software Disc 1 in your CD-ROM and click Install CDW r it er P lus the software analyzes your computer and makes a

recommendation about connecting the CD-Writer Plus hardware. The Install Recommendation tells you whether the jumper on the CD-

Writer Plus should be set as Master or Slave for your computer. Find the pairs of pins labeled Master, Slave, and Cable Select on the back

of the CD-Writer Plus. No tice tha t on e pai r o f pin s ha s a s ma ll pl ast ic c ap or jumper. This jumper can be pulled off using your fingers, tweezers, or needlenose pliers, and placed on a different pair of pins to change the setting.

4 How to Set the CD-Writer Plus as Master or Slave

NOTE: The appearance of the back of your drive may vary slightly from the illustrations. All installation steps are valid for your drive.

Slave

Check the back of the new drive and make sure the jumper is on the center location (Sla ve ).

Don’t use

Cable Select

This is a jumper. You can pull

it off and place it on another pair of pins to change the setting.

or Master

Check the back of the new drive and make sure the jumper is on the right- hand location (Master).

How to Find the IDE Connectors 5

How to Find the IDE Connectors

When you place Software Disc 1 in your CD-ROM and click Install CDW r it er P lus the software analyzes your computer and makes a

recommendation about connecting the CD-Writer Plus hardware. The Install Recommendation tells you whether the CD-Writer Plus

should be connected to the primary or secondary controller in your computer.

If the Install Recommendation states that your CD-Writer Plus drive will share the data cable with another device (such as a CD-ROM drive), follow the cable already attached to the other device down to the circuit board in order to locate the IDE controller that you need. If you find an extra connector along that cable, simply attach that connector to the CD-Writer Plus drive.

Locate the recommended 40-pin IDE controller’s connector (primary or secondary) on your computer’s motherboard.

The IDE connectors are on the motherboard, which is the largest circuit board in your computer, taking up most of the bottom of a desktop computer or the side of a tower computer.

See your computer’s manual if you need help finding the IDE connector

IDE connectors are usually found in pairs and may look like any of the following:

IDE connectors

6 How to Find the IDE Connectors

You will see a variety of connectors inside your computer that look similar to the 40-pin connect or, but have more or fewer pins. Find the connectors that are the correct size to fit the cable that came in the box with your drive .

The IDE connectors may be hidden by some of the computer’s cables or may be behind a drive.

Many computers have an IDE hard drive or CD-ROM that connects to the motherboard through an IDE controller. The data cables on these drives have the same width as the data cable included with your CDWriter Plus. If your computer has an IDE hard drive or CD-ROM drive, you can follow the data cable from the back of one of those drives to find the IDE controller.

Computer manufacturers use a wide variety of labels for IDE connectors. Look on your computer’s circuit boards for printing identifying the primary and secondary connectors, such as:

- PRI and SEC

- IDE-0 and IDE-1

- IDE-1 and IDE-2

- HD and CD-ROM (most common devices to be attached)

- PCI-IDE and ISA-IDE

How to Connect the IDE Data Cable 7

How to Connect the IDE Data Cable

When you place Software Disc 1 in your CD-ROM and click Install CDW r it er P lus the software analyzes your computer and makes a

recommendation about connecting the CD-Writer Plus hardware. The Install Recommendation tells you whether there will be one or two

devices connected to the IDE data cable.

CAUTION: Do not attach the CD-Writer Plus drive to a sound board’s IDE controller.

Most data cable connectors are keyed to fit only one way. If your connector is not keyed to fit only one way make sure the cable’s colored edge is aligned with PIN-1 where it connects to the CD-Writer Plus drive and where it connects to the IDE controller on the motherboard. Among the labels you may find that identify PIN-1 on the motherboard are PIN1, 1 or a small triangle pointing to the pin.

CAUTION: Make sure that you are attaching the cable correctly! You must locate PIN-1 on each connector and attach the cable so that the edge with the color stripe is aligned with PIN-1. If the cable is attached incorrectly, your computer may not boot up.

8 How to Connect the IDE Data Cable

PIN-1

Look for a label identifying PIN-1 next to the IDE connector. The data cable’s colored edge is aligned with PIN-1 of the IDE connector. This illustration shows a specific computer . Y ours may look different. PIN-1 could be on either side of the IDE connector.

colored stripe on the data cable

Colored stripe on the data cable

PIN-1

The cable’s colored edge is aligned with PIN-1 on the CD-Writer Plus drive.

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