CD Drive not recognised by BIOS

Stonedshadow

Stonedshadow

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Morning one and all

A friend of mine's girlfriend works at a school and she has been given a PC from another department. The thing is, the cd drive was disabled so the kids couldnt use it originally, now this teacher wants them to be able to use some educational disks and stuff but cant get the Cd drive to work since it was disabled.

Have tried a couple different IDE cables and well, the power cable is fine because the drive does open and close when its plugged in but the BIOS doesnt recognise that the drive is there

Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers
 
If the BIOS isn't recognising it, Device Manager isn't going to be of any use.

Are there options to enable/disable different IDE controllers in the BIOS - if the HD is SATA and the CD ROM is IDE, it could be the IDe controller is disabled in the BIOS.

Normally under the 'features' section.

What kind of machien is it?
 
Trying to boot from the drive after a fresh wipe, it all seems to be plugged in fine but the BIOS doesnt recognise it. Shouldnt need to do that should I?
 
StevenRaith said:
If the BIOS isn't recognising it, Device Manager isn't going to be of any use.

Are there options to enable/disable different IDE controllers in the BIOS - if the HD is SATA and the CD ROM is IDE, it could be the IDe controller is disabled in the BIOS.

Normally under the 'features' section.

What kind of machien is it?
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Ah thanks, have checked and there doesn't seem to be any options to enable/ disable different controllers, machine may be a little outdated for such helpful options :) Machine is an optoplex 170L
 
You need to see if the BIOS itself even realises there is a drive there - if it doesn't see it in the BIOS, it certainly won't boot from it ;)

Edit: Never mind.

Hmm. Tried googling for "Optiplex 170L no CD-ROM found"?
 
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