Windows 7 not picking up Sony Optiarc CD/DVD AD-7240S drive

Marine-RX179 · 25 Oct 2010 at 15:28

I have just finished moving my old Q6600 over onto the P5Q Deluxe MB. Bios can clearly detect the drive, and it worked fine and managed to install from the Windows 7 DVD no problem at all, but now that I can get into Windows, it's not showing the drive at all. As far as I know, optical drives don't need driver to work, and even if it does, Windows should at the very least pick up the existence of the drive. This drive worked perfectly fine with my previous motherboard, which was the MSI P6N SLI V2.

I was also told Sony branded drives can be quite picky when comes to pairing with other hardware/motherboard...anyone know what I need to do to get windows to pick up the drive? :confused:

RJC · 25 Oct 2010 at 15:40

What does device manager show, does the drive show up when a disc inserted.

Marine-RX179 · 25 Oct 2010 at 16:10

RJC said:
What does device manager show, does the drive show up when a disc inserted.

Not it's not even in the device manager. It is as if the drive don't exist...

Merlin5 · 25 Oct 2010 at 18:11

Some suggestions.

Under Start/Devices and Printers, are you able to add it that way?

Is yours sata? Can you try a different sata socket on the motherboard, or even perhaps change it from master to slave or vice versa?

How about a firmware update?

sturmtruppe · 25 Oct 2010 at 18:28

Does the bios pick it up when the system posts?