R40 do not recognize optical drive in ultrabay

**TriggerFinger** · 01-30-2008, 11:38 AM

Hi..

This is my first time to post here. But I have been lurking around this forum for sometime now looking for solutions.

Anyhow I have a recently bought R40 (for cheap) from a friend. He told me it does not recognize the optical drive. The R40 can boot to BIOS without problems. In fact I was able to update the BIOS to most current. Also I can boot using a floppy disk on a floppy drive plugged in the ultrabay. I tried to boot using a Windows XP CD on the optical drive installed in the ultrabay but it just spins, stops then skips it and move to the next assigned bootable device in the BIOS setup.

Optical drive button works. In fact, when you pop in a CD or DVD, the drive spins as if trying to read it. It also spins when at the start boot up process as if trying to read the CD media but after a few seconds of spinning it stops and will go to the next bootable device (in my case HDD). I cannot test it on XP since my HDD has no OS yet.

At first I thought it was the drive since I was able to use the FDD and boot from it. So I changed my optical drive with another one, a known working one from a friend's R30 but the same thing happened... spins, stops and nothing more.

Any advise or ideas that might lead to a solution or at least pin point the cause?

Thank you so much and more power to your forum.

01-30-2008, 11:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,853 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	R40 do not recognize optical drive in ultrabay Hi.. This is my first time to post here. But I have been lurking around this forum for sometime now looking for solutions. Anyhow I have a recently bought R40 (for cheap) from a friend. He told me it does not recognize the optical drive. The R40 can boot to BIOS without problems. In fact I was able to update the BIOS to most current. Also I can boot using a floppy disk on a floppy drive plugged in the ultrabay. I tried to boot using a Windows XP CD on the optical drive installed in the ultrabay but it just spins, stops then skips it and move to the next assigned bootable device in the BIOS setup. Optical drive button works. In fact, when you pop in a CD or DVD, the drive spins as if trying to read it. It also spins when at the start boot up process as if trying to read the CD media but after a few seconds of spinning it stops and will go to the next bootable device (in my case HDD). I cannot test it on XP since my HDD has no OS yet. At first I thought it was the drive since I was able to use the FDD and boot from it. So I changed my optical drive with another one, a known working one from a friend's R30 but the same thing happened... spins, stops and nothing more. Any advise or ideas that might lead to a solution or at least pin point the cause? Thank you so much and more power to your forum. Last edited by TriggerFinger; 01-30-2008 at 11:40 AM.