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finding dvd drives
I cant get my epox mobo to find my DVD drives every time it boots. I tried
switching the power cables about but this didn't work. I booted with cd's in the drives but this didn't work either. as a last resort I changed my PSU to see if that would help but alas it didn't. occasionally it will see one but not the two drives. it proves a little hazardous when installing an O.S. I have to set the bios to boot from cd but then disconnect the hard-drive and this extra delay gives the mobo time to find the DVD drive and then I have to hot wire the hard-drive and hope I don't blow the system up. I tried swapping the power connectors and when I got one that worked then I even put a splitter onto that to power both drives and re-boot but again this didn't work. I have a DVD-rw that wont recognise some interactive cds and a DVD-rom drive that of course wont write. I'm at the end of my tether at the moment. Robin |
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have you checked that each ide channel has a drive configured as master, or
one configured as master and one as slave (by jumpers on the drives)? -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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yeah I have one as master and one as slave but they cant be seen together. I
cant even get the mobo to see the optical drives in the posts. it shows the hdd's but not the optical drives. Robin |
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"robin.gordon1" wrote in message ... yeah I have one as master and one as slave but they cant be seen together. I cant even get the mobo to see the optical drives in the posts. it shows the hdd's but not the optical drives. Robin have you tried connecting them either individually to their current ide port or both at the same time to the ide port the hdd's are connected to? of course you machine won't boot but if they're both seen on the hdd's ide port then it's the secondary ide that's faulty ... if you can see them indivdually then check if the bios is "seeing" the slave/master setting correctly, could be that the jumper setting on one of the drives isn't working. Mal |
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isn't there a bios option for delayed ide detection? might be worth a try.
rms |
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that's what I'm looking for anyone know how to enable it for I cant find it
on my Epox 8KRA2+ Robin |
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