Re: DVD/CD missing after changing drives

No hard drives connected to the IDE. Just the DVD/RW. I want to connect a
backup drive to the IDE but it is not recognizing that either. My SATA Hard
drive is my boot drive and is being recognized and booting up fine. No
matter what I try I still can't use a DVD or CD drive on my IDE.

"Lester Stiefel" wrote:

> Rick wrote:
> > I removed a CD/RW drive and replaced it with a DVD/RW drive. I now have 2
> > DVD/RW drives. They are NEC-3500 and NEC-3540. The NEC-3400 was in my
> > system before and worked fine. I have tried the registry fix CDGONE,
> > unintalling the IDE controllers, reinstalling the newest Gigabyte board
> > drivers, and removing the high and low filters. None of it has worked.
> >
> > I still can't use either DVD/CD. I have nothing with an alert in the
> > system devices. They are not showing there. Also I tried putting the CD/RW
> > back in and the red light stays lit up as soon as I connect it. It will not
> > recognize that either. Tried system restore to before the change and putting
> > the DVD/RW, DVD player and CD/RW back in I had before and it failed the
> > restore. I also tried re-storing the registry but system restore removed the
> > save I had and it's gone. I also tried hooking up a brand new Seagate IDE
> > 200 GB hard drive I bought for backups and it doesn't recognize it.
> > I have add on SATA card which is where my main Hard drive was before this
> > and it still boots up fine. I just cannot use any CD or DVD in my system
> > which is a major problem. I had DVD easy creator and a DVD copy program,
> > including a DVD for free. I removed them all incase it was causing a
> > problem. Still nothing recognized. When the motherboard boots up it finds
> > nothing under IDE then goes to my SATA board and boots up.
> >
> > The IDE controllers are turned on in BIOS and all IDE's are turned on for
> > auto sense in the BIOS. I had not made any changes in the BIOS before or
> > after this. I need someone with some ideas. Any help please. Thanks in
> > advance.
>
> Do you have any drives connected to mainboards IDE
> controller? if not, then disable these at the bios. The
> system will skip the built in IDE test and go immediately to
> SATA RAID card. If your CD/DVD is on the SATA card, make
> sure it is on an independent connector from other HDDs.
> mixing HDDs and cd drives doesn't work well (and sometimes
> doesn't work at all).
>
> --
> Lester Stiefel
> In Romans 1 there are qualities of Unregenerate man listed
> which describe him in the last days.
> Is your quality found on this list??
>
.

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