[SOLVED] IDE Optical Drives not recognized in BIOS

SapAuthor · 09-07-2008, 06:05 PM

This is a tough one, i'm lost lol.

Basically i was fixing my old spanish teacher's computer (kept shutting off, turned out to be a short in the front I/O chip). However, now we have a new problem.

The CD/DVD drives aren't recognizing in BIOS or Windows. I've tried the following to fix:

1: Tried going to a single CD drive set on Master, and CS
2: Tried a new Cable
3: Tried a new CD Drive
4: Inspected the cable plug in to make sure no busted pins that i could detect.

The computer runs on a sata drive so the HDD is not on the IDE cable. I don't know where to turn to next, the BIOS doesn't even recognize it (If you go to boot options, it shows "Not Found" for the CD Drive.) Any ideas? i'm running a diagnostic test on the utility partition but it's not coming up with any errors.

SapAuthor · 09-07-2008, 07:08 PM

Sorry for the double post.

Turned out somehow (probably my error) the IDE was disabled in the BIOS setup options ^_^ that fixed it. Thanks anyways.

09-07-2008, 06:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
SapAuthor Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Win XP, OSX 10.4	[SOLVED] IDE Optical Drives not recognized in BIOS This is a tough one, i'm lost lol. Basically i was fixing my old spanish teacher's computer (kept shutting off, turned out to be a short in the front I/O chip). However, now we have a new problem. The CD/DVD drives aren't recognizing in BIOS or Windows. I've tried the following to fix: 1: Tried going to a single CD drive set on Master, and CS 2: Tried a new Cable 3: Tried a new CD Drive 4: Inspected the cable plug in to make sure no busted pins that i could detect. The computer runs on a sata drive so the HDD is not on the IDE cable. I don't know where to turn to next, the BIOS doesn't even recognize it (If you go to boot options, it shows "Not Found" for the CD Drive.) Any ideas? i'm running a diagnostic test on the utility partition but it's not coming up with any errors.

09-07-2008, 07:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
SapAuthor Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Win XP, OSX 10.4	Re: IDE Optical Drives not recognized in BIOS Sorry for the double post. Turned out somehow (probably my error) the IDE was disabled in the BIOS setup options ^_^ that fixed it. Thanks anyways.