Posted May 3, 201014 yr This may be in the wrong area hopefully an admin may be able to assist Hey, i've had this problem for 2 days pretty much solid CD/DVD drive not showing / registering and blatently just not working although it will open and close. what i have found is after many swearwords.. and trolling forums after attempting to colour code my cases, ( nothing worse than a cream dvd drive in a black case) Firstly with the Vista Machine basically added 1 and failed miserably didnt register at all. to get the cd / dvd to register after a swap out, i added another cd drive, so thats 2 both on a single ide cable in bios set the ide config to auto for both primary and slave, ensuring all wires are in correctly and the jumper cable on the back is set to cable select for both. Miraculously it worked regardless of the efforts i have tried elsewhere. IT HAPPENED AGAIN with my win7 machine. so again tried it as a single, didnt even register, added another spare, reboot they both showed in bios and are currently working on the machine. after they have been identified you can then take the spare / unused back out and the other will still show. Hope this may help anyone out there, its worth a shot either way. Cheers Dave -- jackoman
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