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

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)?


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Thanks, robots.

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

"robin.gordon1" wrote in message
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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


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

isn't there a bios option for delayed ide detection? might be worth a try.

rms

that's what I'm looking for anyone know how to enable it for I cant find it
on my Epox 8KRA2+

Robin