Crazy P5GD1 Problem

I've been posting on the Asus support page about this and have gotten some advice but I thought I would try here as well.

I have a P5GD1 installed. The problem is the DVD writer and CD-ROM. I have a Plextor DVD writer and a vanilla CD-ROM chained to the Primary RAID Connector (red on the motherboard). When the board starts up, the IDE scan seems them on Drive 0 and 1 respectively. They show up perfectly in Windows XP.

The Primary RAID Connector is set to Standard IDE in the BIOS (V. 1007). But the BIOS does not see the CD-ROM or DVD writer at all. When I try to boot from the CD-ROM it does not show up on the boot menu, even hitting F8 at logo; Smart Boot Manager does not see it, and DOS boot disks do not see it.

I think I have everything configured correctly in the BIOS so why can't it see the DVD. I guess I'll go check the jumpers to make sure they are correct but I believe they are.

Any ideas on how to get them recognized in the BIOS?

Thanks!

Neal Lavon
Takoma Park, MD
USA
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