WTF?

   I've run into something I suspect is from my own stupidity. A working box fails to show an installed CDROM. I poked at it in Device Manager with no luck.
   Nexted I checked it's jumpers and tried changing them...nada. Convinced it was the cable I swapped it with a working HDD in the 2nd position, again...nothing.
    Next I pulled a drive from an old box and installed it but again no CDROM showed up. Both CD's *might* be dead but I kinda doubt that.
   Is there a BIOS setting or something just plain dumb on my part I'm forgetting?

is the POST showing that it detects the cds? or does it scroll too quickly to see?

are you sure you have the psu cables plugged into the drive and not just the data cable?

first, check if it appears in the BIOS. If so, then it's a problem with your OS.

"is the POST showing that it detects the cds? or does it scroll too quickly to see?"

I may have missed it but I can use Pause to recheck it.


"are you sure you have the psu cables plugged into the drive and not just the data cable?"

  Even switched to other molys to be sure and the drive lights up and accepts a CD.

"first, check if it appears in the BIOS. If so, then it's a problem with your OS."

    Might be but my hardware isn't new so shot drives are probably more likely than a Windows CD glitch. I can swap in a known working drive from another box but that machined is working at the moment.

Thanks all.

if it doesn't show up in the BIOS, there's usually a setting for 'autodetect' or 'off' which can be toggles for each drive you have installed.  if it still doesn't show in the BIOS, could be a problem with the drive controller or the drive itself.  did you try switching from the primary to the secondary controller (or vice-versa)?

" did you try switching from the primary to the secondary controller (or vice-versa)?"

If that means switching it to both connections of the data cable and resetting for slave and Master I did.

turn the psu cables round... a carpet fitter told me to do that whilst passing and seeing i was having a fit bout my CD-rw not working whilst building my old PC. it worked.

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no, that means "did you try switching from the primary to the secondary controller (or vice-versa)?".  the motherboard most likely has two (or more) thingies to plug your hard drive cables into.  plug your drives into the other one, see if they work then.

   I see, all controller slots are full since I use 3 HDD's and a CD/ROM on all boxes. I'll try that as an experiment later because I'll eventually need to boot from a CD to reinstall.
   As a workaround I hooked up a Sony USB burner but I doubt my mobo could manage a boot from there.

Thanks

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