SATA to IDE adapter.

[nic2k4]

It starts display and freezes...

Not all motherboards support optical drives on the SATA ports, the same with onboard RAID controllers and most PCI IDE cards (it's mentioned in the manual). Usually, if the motherboard has a mix of IDE and SATA ports it won't support SATA optical drives; except for boards with Intel chipsets. Newer boards with AMD chipsets (with hyper transport chipset) work better. Best would be to google the your board or chipset and drive combo.

There are bi-directional SATA-IDE converters, you plug it into an IDE drive and the SATA port goes to the motherboard or you plug it into the motherboard's IDE port and you can add 2 SATA drives.

[bevills1]

It starts display and freezes...

Not all motherboards support optical drives on the SATA ports, the same with onboard RAID controllers and most PCI IDE cards (it's mentioned in the manual). Usually, if the motherboard has a mix of IDE and SATA ports it won't support SATA optical drives; except for boards with Intel chipsets. Newer boards with AMD chipsets (with hyper transport chipset) work better. Best would be to google the your board or chipset and drive combo.

There are bi-directional SATA-IDE converters, you plug it into an IDE drive and the SATA port goes to the motherboard or you plug it into the motherboard's IDE port and you can add 2 SATA drives.

Purposely I got a mother board with Intel chipset because I knew about the optical drive issues with other chipsets. Interestingly the link given is the exact same adapter I have that doesn't work. The IDE CDRW drive isn't seen in bios which I expected, but there's no screen showing the CDRW drive during boot either. I actually have 2 very similar PCs with Intel motherboards, and the adapter doesn't work on either one.