DS3 - DVD Drive Not Working

Ste99

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Sata HD connected to the top yellow sata port on the mobo.

DVD RW connected to the IDE port on the mobo.

Installed an e6420 and a ds3 today and it will boot into windows fine but when I go to boot from a CD to format the drive and reinstall windows there is no activity from the drive.

In windows the drive appears to show up correctly in My Computer but it won't read any cd's that i insert.

The HD shows up as IDE Master 0 and the DVD Drive shows up as IDE Master 4 in the BIOS.

Any ideas?
 
Might be a setting problem inthe bios i.e, ide mode can't comment really as I have a ds3p-maybe they are similar? My ide writer will only burn single layer as does my sata writer on a ds3p :(
 
Ste99 said:
Sata HD connected to the top yellow sata port on the mobo.

DVD RW connected to the IDE port on the mobo.

Installed an e6420 and a ds3 today and it will boot into windows fine but when I go to boot from a CD to format the drive and reinstall windows there is no activity from the drive.

In windows the drive appears to show up correctly in My Computer but it won't read any cd's that i insert.

The HD shows up as IDE Master 0 and the DVD Drive shows up as IDE Master 4 in the BIOS.

Any ideas?
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When the computer boots press F12 and then select CD-Rom from the boot menu, if that dosent work, i Dont know what is wrong:(
 
Turns out the 3 month old drive is faulty. Stuck in a 9 year old dvd rom drive and it worked. Thanks for the help anyway guys :D
 
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