Cable connections in pc: I screwed up: Need HELP

[emock1]

Well, I really screwed up here. Need any advice please. Heres the story: Took the cdrom, cdrw drive, and the hard drive out of pc due to bad motherboard. Got new motheroard.Forgot which way to connect the cables back to the hard drive, cdrw, and cdrom. I just had a "brain-fart", and cannot figure them out. Should have been more careful, but too late now. Thought that I had it right, but when I turn the power on, monitor is not getting any signal inputs. Lights go on, fan goes on, can hear hard drive click on, but then nothing. I have three cables...can connect two on one, or ? Any help out there is so much appreciated. Cannot afford to take in to repair.

 

[Skrogzilla]

OK...I would first check that the video card is properly seated. If you are not even seeing the POST, (memory check) on the screen on startup, you probably have loosened the vid card from the AGP or PCI slot while rummaging around in the case. (this is from previous experience...hehe). Next, I would cable the hard drive to the first IDE slot by itself (the ribbon cables have a tab on them so they only hook up one way), then, depending on which of the CD drives are newer, I would set the (newer)cdrom jumper on master and then the (older)CDRW jumper to slave and hook them to the second cable and second IDE slot on the motherboard.I do it this way as it is easy to add a second hard drive to the first IDE hard drive later. The jumpers are usually located right next to where the ribbon cables connect to the CDROMs and setting them is very easy as the positions are usually labled above or below the jumpers. You should see MST (for master) SLV (for slave) and CBL (for cable select) hope this helps....GL!

 

[emock1]

Thank you for the info. I think that you are right, however I will have to buy a new video card. The old one looks like it is permanently connected to the motherboard ?. I think that this may be the fix though. Thank you so much !!