cd/dvd drives

Hi Profhig,

Congrats on building your PC yourself! I'm not a hardware wiz, especially with all the current crop of accessories and add-ons, but I'm sure one of our many experts wil be along soon to give you some advice.

This is a weird one.
I have a feeling that I have heard something about this motherboard before with certain problems relating to the chipset and cooling. I may be misremembering though.
Check out www.tomshardware.com Tom's Hardware Guide for some advice on the motherboard.

I can only think that it is a problem with the master/slave settings. I know you've gone through thembut it's possible there is a problem.
Try them on a different channel with the DVD on the same IDE cabe as your C harddrive. With the HD as the master and the DVD as the slave.
The put the writer on IDE2 as the master.
Go back through the BIOS and do a manual recognition of them rather than just letting the BIOS do it's thing.
Save your settings and boot the machine up.
Now don't do anything just yet, do a reboot.
Now you can go into the harware manager and check for the presence of both drives. Also run Windows Explorer and check that they're both there.

Check both the h/w manager and win expl before you do anything else or change anything.

I've had a problem where the BIOS didn't see the drive, h/w manager didn't see the drive but as soon as I ran win explorer it was there and after a reboot all was well.

dvd/cd drives.
I know i am a little late replying, but due to a sequence of personal and computer problems [mostly sorted now] i haven't been to visit for a while. i found the solution to the problem. this is what it turned out to be. i found it because somebody [can't remember who] suggested updating drivers for the ide channels, which took me there. as soon as i saw what was in advanced settings, i realised that the ide channel [or at least device 1] was disabled.


1.Right click my computer, go to properties, hardware, device manager
2.open ide/atapi controllers.
3.Double click the channel on which drive is installed, or right click and chose properties. (in my case secondary ide channel).
4.Click advanced settings tab. [In device 0 device type is greyed out, since I already have dvd rom installed there.]
5.In device 1, 'device type' I opened the drop down list and chose auto detection.
6.I rebooted, checked bios was still recognising both drives, continued with re-boot and hey presto! There was the drive!!. I knew it would be simple. Hope somebody else can benefit from this. Thanx to all those who responded.

I hadn't seen this one before. Thanks a heap, profhig, for returning to report the solution! Congrats!

dvd/cd drives.
Glad to be of help. I would never have thought that the ide might be disabled in windows. I suppose we would expect windows to detect and enable by default. I racked my brain for what seemed like an age on this. It might save somebody a month of headaches!! It's quite a while ago now, but I am sure windows was recognising new hardware, but couldn't install it [we now know why!]. This sort of threw me. The drive was found, so who would think the connection was disabled? We live and [hopefully] learn.