RE: Where's my new drive?

You mentioned master and slave but did you set the jumpers properly? Some
drives need to be set to CS (Cable Select) or they will not work no matter
what you do. Did you change the cables? Sometimes a year old cable may just
stop working. This also could be something in the BIOS Setup. I have seen
some motherboards where the CD drives need to be set to "None", rebooted,
then set to "Auto" for the drives to work properly. The last thing is that
the IDE controller(s) could be bad. I have seen boards that recognized the
drives, showed them at bootup, Windows recognized them but no matter what,
they would not work. Put them in another PC and they work fine.
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That's just like my opinion, Man........


"shoulderhead" wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Our daughter's PC stopped playing her CDs and DVDs. So I bought a new drive
> for it (white box, no installation software included).
> Now I realise that the problem may lie elsewhere. The computer cannot find
> the new drive (or the existing (slave) CDRW drive).
> On reboot, it finds them and adds them as new hardware and says that the
> devices are working properly. But as soon as a disc is inserted, the system
> crashes and the devices disappeare from DEVICE MANAGER. They appear and are
> reinstalled on reboot again.
> I have disblaed and uninstalled them, to try and get a clean install, but
> the same thing happens. Sometimes they will stay active long enough to open
> (eg) Windows Media Player and start a track listing before it crashes out.
> Anyone got any ideas?
> The drive is a MATSHITA DVD-ROM SR8589 (almost identical to the faulty one
> it replaced). It is the master drive in the system.
>
> Computer otherwise healthy. Thanks in advance. Best wishes, shoulderhead
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