CD Drive problems

[pgrmdave]

So, about a month ago my family switched computers around. My older brother got a new one, so he gave me his old one (it was two years newer than mine). I gave mine to my parents (theirs was from 1998, they needed something new). To keep everything we had, we just swapped harddrives. After a little playing around with it, my parents' computer (my old one) works fine. However, my computer (my brother's old one) does not recognize that it has any CD drives attached. Neither the OS (XP) nor the BIOS sees that I have two drives attached. I've tried using different cables, changing the drives from cable select to master/slave and back again, and I've used different CD drives, to see if it was the drive itself. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8IHXP. Any ideas, suggestions, or solutions would be helpful.

[C1ay]

Is the BIOS current?

[Mercedes Benzene]

I had this problem once with an external CD drive.

It was solved by replacing a button battery located on the motherboard. It turned out that that little battery was responsible for allowing the computer to recognize the drive.

[pgrmdave]

Is the BIOS current?

 

:( Leave it to me to test everything but that - got the latest updated BIOS, and the drives are now working :(

[VS Prasad]

If you have put the hard disk as master, you have to put

CD Drive as slave. Check up the jumper settings at the back.

[alexander]

or you could just use cable select like most modern-day computers that use IDE do...

[Southtown]

:confused: Leave it to me to test everything but that - got the latest updated BIOS, and the drives are now working :hyper:

That happened with me and my new sata hd. haha Don't feel bad.

[Tormod]

I actually had to replace a fairly new DVD burner last fall because it was *incompatible* with my new motherboard. Duh. I wonder how they even accomplish that!

[alexander]

Tormod PS3 is not just a dvd burner! :D jk