CD rom not in the BIOS

ash7jar · 26 Aug 2006 at 07:34

Hello all, need some help here

Just bought my self a new Pc for the weekend

the mobo is a MSI 965P NEO (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
a Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 GTO 256MB

and i have set it all up and is working fine put XP on there evry thing is done.
But in the BIOS the CD rom drives are not showing up any ideas
thay show in windows fine an it works fine :confused:

thanks any help

Freakish_05 · 26 Aug 2006 at 08:58

Try checking that the IDE cables and Molexes are all plugged in securely.

I get this all the time when I take my PC apart.

HTH

j00ni · 26 Aug 2006 at 11:02

Freakish_05 said:
Try checking that the IDE cables and Molexes are all plugged in securely.

I get this all the time when I take my PC apart.

HTH

Seems unlikely that would be the cause if the drives work under windows

All I can think is that your master/slave jumper settings might not be set up correctly, but then that would usually mean they don't show up in windows :confused:

Trigger · 26 Aug 2006 at 11:47

How have you managed to install windows if the optical drives do not appear in BIOS?

Tetras · 26 Aug 2006 at 12:20

You sure your not looking at SATA masters instead of IDE?

ash7jar · 26 Aug 2006 at 12:47

Tetras said:
You sure your not looking at SATA masters instead of IDE?

no IDE sorry mate

ash7jar · 26 Aug 2006 at 12:48

I just can't make this all out :confused:

ash7jar · 26 Aug 2006 at 12:48

Freakish_05 said:
Try checking that the IDE cables and Molexes are all plugged in securely.

I get this all the time when I take my PC apart.

HTH

done that 3 times sorry

ash7jar · 26 Aug 2006 at 12:51

Trigger said:
How have you managed to install windows if the optical drives do not appear in BIOS?

Just don,t know mate but the system all works fine

just dont show the CD rom drives in the BIOS, i have a DVD one set as master and a slave samsung DVD rom drive

Tetras · 26 Aug 2006 at 13:01

If they work in Windows then who cares

Very odd though, are all the IDE Master/Slave entries just completely blank then?

ash7jar · 27 Aug 2006 at 11:04

right ok the optical drives which dont show in the bios but show in windows after testing are reading data very slowly and music off a cd is choppy. why is it doing this ?? please help ?

squiffy · 27 Aug 2006 at 11:16

Triple check master/slave? Cable select? Checked cables aren't half in?
Updated motherboard BIOS?

V For Vendetta · 27 Aug 2006 at 11:32

ash7jar said:
right ok the optical drives which dont show in the bios but show in windows after testing are reading data very slowly and music off a cd is choppy. why is it doing this ?? please help ?

check IDE busmaster are they set to PIO mode

ash7jar · 27 Aug 2006 at 13:11

squiffy said:
Triple check master/slave? Cable select? Checked cables aren't half in?
Updated motherboard BIOS?

sorry done that

ash7jar · 27 Aug 2006 at 13:11

V For Vendetta said:
check IDE busmaster are they set to PIO mode

done that as well sorry

m3lv1n · 27 Aug 2006 at 14:51

this may sound dumb but have you tried setting both to CS instead of Master and Slave I had a board once that refused to work unless drives were set to CS

ash7jar · 27 Aug 2006 at 15:24

m3lv1n said:
this may sound dumb but have you tried setting both to CS instead of Master and Slave I had a board once that refused to work unless drives were set to CS

sorry mate just done this and its still not there :rolleyes:

anything else

m3lv1n · 27 Aug 2006 at 15:45

I take it you have already tried it with just 1 drive attached to see what happens.

Disconnect your SATA HD's as well

If you see it great then start adding devices until they vanish.

Comps are such a pain in the rear

j00ni · 27 Aug 2006 at 15:48

Have you tried replacing the IDE cable to make sure it's not that too??

ash7jar · 28 Aug 2006 at 10:18

j00ni said:
Have you tried replacing the IDE cable to make sure it's not that too??

yes sorry