Sata dvd-rw to replace old pata dvd-rw

Hi Everybody
I have a HP D530 SFF Pc with 4GB ram,XP service pack 3 with an LG dvd -rw. I am replacing the LG rewriter (It has died) with a new Sony Optiarc rewriter. There are 3 connections on the old LG writer (power,ide and analog) and the new Sony writer has 2 (sata power and sata data). What i need to know is how can i connect the new device to the computer ? Also what would be a good graphics card up grade for this pc ?
Thanks to all in advance for any help and advice.
Chris
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Hi, Chris:
You can connect the DVD-RW to one of the 2 SATA ports on the motherboard. Hopefully the SATA power connector on one of the power lines will reach it.
Otherwise you will need a Molex to SATA power adapter.
You can't do much for video cards for that PC.
Safe bets would be a used but tested and working Radeon 9600 128/256 MB AGP 8x card or a nVidia GeForce 6200 128 or 256 MB AGP 8x video card.
They have to be low profile cards and they need the low profile bracket.
There should be some on eBay
Those would also be windows 7 capable video cards.
Paul

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ata1: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14
ata2: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xF008 irq 15
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ata1: port disabled. ignoring.
ata1: reset failed, giving up
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ata2: port disabled. ignoring.
ata2: reset failed, giving up
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[<f8819130>] nv_generic_interrupt+0x0/0xb0 [sata_nv]
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[<c02916ea>] bus_for_each_dev+0x3a/0x60
[<c0292086>] driver_attach+0x16/0x20
[<c02923b0>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x90
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[<c0145e8d>] sys_init_module+0x15d/0x1b60
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Hi:
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