CDROM not working on new mobo

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My p35c turned up this aft and ive been rebuilding my machine.

decided to get rid of the 250gb maxtor that was sharing the ide cable with the cd rom. only problmem is now the cd rom isnt working at all... no power to it, no little green light, and it's not showing up in device manager.

have tried CS, slave and master.

Stumped.

Ideas?
 
Weird...

When you say won't accept, you mean it doesn't read discs?


I'd say the drive's dodgy - but you said it was working fine before the mobo swap...

Maybe the motherboard's got a faulty IDE port?

Chipset drivers installed?

Maybe something happened to it with the IDE cable being in the wrong way?

Can't think of anything else it could be.
 
nope, reads nothing... apart from blank dvds. but then you cant do anything. it asks you if you want to format, so you click ok, and it just sits there.

its a brand new mobo (which doesnt say a lot, and its a gigabyte. moved from the p35 to p35c as the first 2 i had in the space of 2 weeks went duff!)

chipset drivers installed

dont think putting the cable into the dvd drive the wrong way will have done anything. ive done it loads in the past.

looks like its new dvd rom time. perhaps sata not eide?
 
Yup

Yup

Yup (edit: nope! *sigh* thought i had it the right way round. thought the notches were there to stop it plugging in the wrong way)

How does that work?
It should only go in one way if it has notches.

Pin 1 is next to the molex power plug and IDE cables have a red side to pin 1 like this.
Same on motherboard except Pin1 will be written on the motherboard. (or shown in manual as to which side it is )
 
Well it went in the wrong way on the back of the drive.

And it's a blue cable with a white stripe.

Alas, it's still not working. The more I delve into it, the more I find people with all sorts of drives have had this problem with Vista.
 
Looking at your other posts, it seems a huge amount of work re-installing vista (depending I suppose what you have on it) for what might be just a bad drive.

IDE channels do fail, though it's rare.
Before I would go as far as reinstalling windows, I would stick a known working drive on that IDE channel / change cables etc.

Thinking....if your CD / DVD drive is bad how you going to re-install it anyway?
 
Cos it's seen in BIOS and I can boot from it, which leads me to believe it's a Vista issue and not a hardware fault.

Anyway, it's working now. Went out, came back and booted up, and when vista loaded the cd span up and autoran!

Bizarre.
 
hahaha

well, all's good.

apart from installing the new 7.11 catayst drivers TOTALLY borked my system up. have managed to get the driver sorted so at least i can boot into vista and play stuff. but getting catalyst control center working is a whole new matter.

why are computers getting harder and more finnicky???
 
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