CDROM not working on new mobo

[ALLI]

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?

 

[ALLI]

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)

 

[ALLI]

it was

now its not.

windows can see it, but it wont accept any media - written, blank or original.

 

[ALLI]

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?

 

[ALLI]

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.

 

[ALLI]

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.

 

[ALLI]

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???