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okay, you see one day my HP CD-R drive just stopped reading/writing discs, so i figure it's burnt out, and i purchase a new CD-RW (52x/24x/52x), from Dell, ..... and I install it all right and gently put the cables in to their positions, and when I turn on the computer, it does NOT detect any other drive whatsoever......i've tried reconnecting the cables like 5 times, and everything.....i'm on the last straw here.... could it be the cable itself?, anyone know anything to help?? this really sucks and i cant burn cd's anymore. |
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Have you checked that it is set up/detected in the bios? |
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I went to System in the Control Panel, where my other DVD-ROM drive is listed,..... it won't detect it no matter what. I refresh and refresh and reconnect the cables and everything. I'm just gonna have to take it to the computer shop. This happens everytime. It's so simple yet I can never manage to get it to work for ME. |
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thanks anyway tho. |
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You can try the following before you spend any money. Turn off your pc and connect the cd drive. Make sure that the power and data cables are plugged in well to the drive and to the motherboard. Turn on your pc, right at the beginning when the momory is being checked press DELETE. This will take you into the bios configurator. Choose the 'Standard CMOS Features' Option Where it says ... > IDE > IDE > IDE > IDE YOU should see your hard disk listed as well as any other dvd/cd drives you have in there. If there are some entries that say [NONE] then change them to say Auto Detect. Leave the others alone. Now press ESC and exit the bios making sure to save your changes. Your pc should now restart. See if it has detected our new drive now. |
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hey thanks a bunch, man, i will def. try this when i get home. sounds promising. the manual said something about checking bios but i really didnt know how to do that. thanks again. |
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no problem, let me know if it works out. |
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Got it fixed yet? |
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it probaby something in the bios, yeah |
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The first thing you should have checked where the jumper settings on the drive and make sure it was set to Slave or whatever you wanted it set to. |
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its the bios settings. i can't tell you anymore because all bioses are different. just hunt it down. |
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The BIOS is the last thing to start pissing about with, most IDE drives are auto detected by the BIOS, if it is not set to auto detect then it should be. Check the jumper settings on both drives on the IDE line. |
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ok, i figured it out. my DVD-ROM drive is serving as the secondary slave, and the jumper settings on the new CD-RW were on slave also. So, they were overriding each other. I changed it to master, and the computer recognizes a DRIVE D: and E:, but to no avail,.....it knows a CD is in there when i put one in,.....but it cant play them,....and it can't open applications or programs on cd, (treats them as a single audio track?!?)....i'm still stuck, why can't i have a CD-RW??? |
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and sometimes, ...i'd say every fourth/fifth restart,....it won't even recognize both drives at all,...and says my secondary IDE controller is a conflicting resource in the Device Manager..... so i restart, and voila , it notices them both, but the CD-RW can still not play/load cd's...... |
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Remove the DVD-ROM from the line and see whether you can get it working with just the CD-RW. If the CD-RW then works we can set about sorting the other problem out. |
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ohohoohyes. that worked. played and burned successfully at 52x in 2:03. |
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thanks so much everyone. i'll continue to experiment using my dvd and other cd-r to see if theyll work together...even if they don't i'm satisfied.... :) |
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thanks so much everyone. i'll continue to experiment using my dvd and other cd-r to see if theyll all work together...even if they don't i'm satisfied.... :) |
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thanks so much everyone. i'll continue to experiment using my dvd and other cd-r to see if theyll all work together...even if they don't i'm satisfied.... :) |
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whoa that wasnt cool. ... |
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Yeah motherfucker...I was the only one who was right...you should be giving me props not the BIOS monkeys :D |
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Oh and just so the BIOS monkeys know, Windows XP takes very little notice of the BIOS anyway (by that I mean in most cases it completely ignores it and relys on it's own hardware detection). |
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by everyone, i meant ecnadniarb only. |
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:) |
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:D!!!! |
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Fuck you then :) |
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