Lost all IDE optical drives - Asus P5KC

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Hi Folks

I have an Asus P5KC board and I have upgraded to the latest BIOS vsion 0701.

The only hard drive in the sytem is a 500GB SATA
I have 2 IDE optical drives conencted (DVD ROM and DVD writer)

Neither of the IDE optical drives are showing in Windows Vista.

I cannot see the IDE drives or any options for the IDE interface the BIOS. This was the case even when they appeared in Vista!

These drives had used to work! I have chekced cables, jumpers etc

Ideas?
 
Not sure if I read that right... but did you check the BIOS options? There will be one probably that will let you turn off the IDE lanes so nothing works on them, might be worth making sure that that option isn't turned to the incorrect setting.
 
I have set the BIOS to boot from ATAPI CD drive as the first boot device and rebooted with an original XP installation CD in the dirve.

I dont even get the option to boot from CD!

Anyone else with this issue, or have any idesa?

Ta
 
superplay said:
I have set the BIOS to boot from ATAPI CD drive as the first boot device and rebooted with an original XP installation CD in the dirve.

I dont even get the option to boot from CD!

Anyone else with this issue, or have any idesa?

Ta
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Where abouts are ya mate?

Are the drives showing up in the BIOS?

Stelly
 
I am familiar with this type of option, however this BIOS does not have any such options (Or I could be going blind).


flibby said:
Not sure if I read that right... but did you check the BIOS options? There will be one probably that will let you turn off the IDE lanes so nothing works on them, might be worth making sure that that option isn't turned to the incorrect setting.
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Had a search around...

The port on this motherboard seemingly is not a regular IDE port, it will NOT pick up optical drives and ONLY works with hard drives, this is why you probably cannot pick up the optical drives on the IDE channel.

Asus Tech Support said:
Dear Sir/Madam

Unfortunately the EIDE port on this motherboard is not a typical IDE port. It works with HDD's but is not compatable with optical disk drives. You will need a SATA DVD/CD burner in the system.

Best Regards,
Tim P.
Asus Tech Support
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flibby - Interesting

However I installed Vista from a boot DVD using the IDE DVD drive. I have also installed applicataion from DVD before it vanished.

I am going to roll back the bios to an ealier version to see what happens :eek:


Stelly said:
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUCH :(

Stelly
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That's funny because I have a P5KC and had 2x DVD drives on the IDE port without any issues at all.

I now have a SATA DVDRW so ditched the IDE altogether but IDE Optical works 100%.

The IDE controller is by JMicron and is offset to the chipset unlike other mobos that use the southbridge so there's some BIOS settings that may need changing. Mine on default however worked out the box (v0701)
 
Doh! Doh! Doh!

After the BIOS upgrade the "JMicron" controller was set to disabled by default.

I was looking for IDE controller or similar in the BIOS, as I thought that the "JMicron" controller was for RAID only.

Thanks for the help guys 'n Girls.

:)
 
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