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Lead Head · September 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by One4yu2c

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Originally Posted by Lead Head

CD-Drive should not showup within the BIOS, but they should on the POST screen

That's incorrect - opticals should be showing up in the BIOS if hooked up correctly.

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Originally Posted by jokerswild

Bios shows only the HDD's not the CD drives so I took one hard off and connected the CD as a slave to the master hard disc drive. Now when I go into the bios no drives show on IDE channels.

Verify that the jumpers on your drives (both HDD and optical) are set correctly. For example, if you're hooking up the HDD and optical to a single cable, make sure the jumper on the HDD is set to master, and that the jumper on the optical is set to slave.

At least on my board, within the BIOS under IDE devices, CD-ROM drives do not show up, but on the POST screen they do? :?:

Jokerswild · September 18th, 2006

I have them seperated again both HDD's showup in the bios and the post screen. The cd drives are set to cable select and neither one shows up either together or one at a time. Do I need to set them as master and slave? I thought cable select worked no matter.

**One4yu2c** · September 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by jokerswild

I have them seperated again both HDD's showup in the bios and the post screen. The cd drives are set to cable select and neither one shows up either together or one at a time. Do I need to set them as master and slave? I thought cable select worked no matter.

I never use cable select personally. There should be an option/setting for when the optical is by itself. If it doesn't say, then try taking the jumper off completely, as often times that's the setting for flying solo.

Jokerswild · September 18th, 2006

Ok I'll have to pull the drives later as I'm getting dinner ready since the wife is going to Mary Kay meeting soon. I'll get back and post after I try that.

**One4yu2c** · September 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Lead Head

At least on my board, within the BIOS under IDE devices, CD-ROM drives do not show up, but on the POST screen they do? :?:

Look harder? I've never seen a motherboard that didn't show an optical in the BIOS, and with your mobo specifically, Virtual Hideout's review shows a 48X burner (labeled 48X12) in their BIOS screenie ---> LINK

Capper · September 18th, 2006

First thing I would do is to check the cables you are using to make sure they are attached correctly and haven't bent any pins on the drive or the board. Then make sure the drives are getting power from the 4-pin molex.

If you have anything else attached to the IDE cables, make sure you have the drives set to the appropriate "master" or "slave" device.

Then after doing that, I'd try setting the system to "optimized defaults" and if that doesn't work, "fail-safe defaults".

If none of that works...you are cursed, and should never touch a computer again....JK!!!!

It sounds like the power supply is maxed out...Just me thinking out loud, but a generic PSU pushing a s939 system, two HDD, two optical drives....and sporadically missing stuff during load up, you might try disconnecting everything you don't absolutely need (the second HDD and optical drive, etc)

Lead Head · September 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by One4yu2c

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Originally Posted by Lead Head

At least on my board, within the BIOS under IDE devices, CD-ROM drives do not show up, but on the POST screen they do? :?:

Look harder? I've never seen a motherboard that didn't show an optical in the BIOS, and with your mobo specifically, Virtual Hideout's review shows a 48X burner (labeled 48X12) in their BIOS screenie ---> LINK

Hmm...I never noticed it sayign CD-ROM drive before..I'll check again next time I got in the BIOS.

Do you have any other CD-Rom drives you could try?

Jokerswild · September 18th, 2006

The plextor drive works for sure so I'll disconnect the lite-on drive and reset the jumper on the plextor. I'll also disconnect the second HDD to save power. The molex connectors work enough to eject the drive drawers at least.

**One4yu2c** · September 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by One4yu2c

There should be an option/setting for when the optical is by itself. If it doesn't say, then try taking the jumper off completely, as often times that's the setting for flying solo.

To elaborate and correct myself above, setting the jumper to 'master' is usually the appropriate setting for an optical by itself on an IDE channel. I have seen where they've required you to remove jumper altogether, but more often than not you'd set it to master. So give that a try instead of cable select before narrowing down a physical hardware issue.

EDIT: And looking at Lite-On's documentation, they also use the 'master' setting for a solo drive.

Jokerswild · September 18th, 2006

Woot, one4yu2c was right I had the damn plextor set as master but it was on the slave cable. I must have switched to master slave at one point because it was always cable select before. Anyway OS is loading. :D :roll: :D :D :D

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Jokerswild ButtHead Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,291	I have them seperated again both HDD's showup in the bios and the post screen. The cd drives are set to cable select and neither one shows up either together or one at a time. Do I need to set them as master and slave? I thought cable select worked no matter.