FITTED DVD BUT WONT RECOGNISE

[spanky]

HI ALL I AM KEVIN JUST JOINED TODAY

 

I HAVE TRIED FITTING A 2ND DVD DRIVE FROM ANOTHER PC TO THIS ONE EVERYTHING SEEMED OK BUT WHEN I POWERED ON AND LOOKED IN MY COMP IT WASNT THERE AND EVEN THE ORIGINAL ONE WASNT THERE.

 

I SET THE ORIGINAL AS MASTER AND THE NEWISH ONE TO SLAVE....SO I SWAPPED THEM AROUND STILL NO JOY..........IF I UNPLUG THE NEWISH ONE AND THEN IT DOES RECOGNISE THE ORIGINAL BUT AS SOON AS I CONNECT THE NEWISH ONE THEN IT DOESNT RECOGNISE ANY................DOES THIS MEAN THE NEWISH ONE IS FAULTY OR AM I DOING SOMETHING TOTALLY WRONG

 

HELP PLEASE

 

CHEERS

 

K

[Jelly Bean]

Hello and welcome.

 

No caps please the loudness is deafening me.:D

 

Ok what sort of drives are they?

 

Do they attach via IDE cable?

 

If yes put the master on the end connection and the slave in the middle.

 

Now are they reconised on the post screen or in BIOS/Setup?

 

Remeber diffrent make and models of drives may require a diffrent jumper setting.

 

You do not have them attached to the hard drive cable?

[spanky]

Hi JB....oops forgot about caps .....

both dvd rw drives or did you want more.......lol?

yes ide cable

will re connect but have to switch this pc off as it is the one i am using now.

dont know what jumper settings are or how to find them.

and i dont think so.............lol

 

thanks will switch off re try and get back to you.............will be an hour or 2 tho as i have to pop out to work for a couple of hrs

 

 

 

thanks for help

 

regards

 

K

[Jelly Bean]

Thankyou babe.

 

Jumper settings.

 

Look on the end of the CD/DVD drives you will see pins and a little plastic peice.

 

This plastic peice needs to be set as master or slave.

 

There should be a sticker on the CD/DVD rom drives to show which setting is correct.

 

Do not worry about turning the PC off we are still her,me I am always here.