Ultra IDE Origami
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 4:18 am
So last week my parcel with two 800mm ultra IDE cables finally arrived.
The first thing you should notice when trying to install a new cable,
is that the hard drives connector is inverted on the original cable.
To replicate this I devised a way to fold the new cable shown below...
Next I would fold up the mobo half of the cable...
Now connect the cable to the mobo and continue to install the DVDrom.
Having the cable laying over the top of the DVDrom, fold a 90 degree
bend towards the HD and try to align the cable with the clip on HD tray.
Make another 90 degree fold towards the front of the xbox console,
again trying to keep the cable aligned with the HD's IDE connector...
Finally fold the last bit of the cable underneath itself and connect to the HD...
So this was the neatest way I could come up with for now,
I thought it was worth sharing...
The first thing you should notice when trying to install a new cable,
is that the hard drives connector is inverted on the original cable.
To replicate this I devised a way to fold the new cable shown below...
Next I would fold up the mobo half of the cable...
Now connect the cable to the mobo and continue to install the DVDrom.
Having the cable laying over the top of the DVDrom, fold a 90 degree
bend towards the HD and try to align the cable with the clip on HD tray.
Make another 90 degree fold towards the front of the xbox console,
again trying to keep the cable aligned with the HD's IDE connector...
Finally fold the last bit of the cable underneath itself and connect to the HD...
So this was the neatest way I could come up with for now,
I thought it was worth sharing...