Re: CD not working in XP


ric wrote:

adamomitcheney@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I've just finished building a PC around an ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard.
I've installed Windows XP Pro (by CD) but when I start it up, no CD
drive appears. I have the following drives:

-8<- snip details ->8-

The BIOS is having no problem recognising everything - why can't
Windows? Can anyone help me with what to investigate next?

Jumper the drives correctly.
You have 2x IDE channels (big ribbon cables) and each can have 2 IDE
devices on it. To work properly, one must be set to master and one to
slave - you can either do this automatically by putting the jumpers on
each to "cable select" but this doesn't always work. I'd manually set
one on each cable (2 devices per cable) and jumper them as appropriate.
Note that some hard disks (i.e. Maxtor!) have different jumpering
configurations depending on whether they're master by themselves, or
master sharing with a slave.

get it picked up in bios and you're good to go. you can't damage
anything by changing these (with power off, obv) so experiment until it
works.

Thanks for the response Ric. Everything is jumpered correctly (20GB WDC
jumpered explicitly as master, CD as slave) and the BIOS has no
problems identifying IDE channels and IDs correctly for all my hard
drives and the CD. XP was even installed from the CD. However, the CD
doesn't appear in device manager or disk manager - no error symbols, no
sign at all.

I'm going to play around with setting the CD as secondary master
instead. If that fails, I'll try removing all the IDE devices and add
them back one by one...

Cheers - Adam...

.

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