Is this bios or os problem

[pappysniper]

Hi all, I seem to have lost my cdrom drive, It really stange it shows up in the post and if I go into the bios setup it there along with the HDD but when I go to the boot menu it gone, it never show up in MY COMPUTER in Windows but i can see it in device manager with Exclamation Mark going througth it uninstalling and reinstalling it make no differance.

I am wondering this has got to be a bios problem, because even though the bios see it I can not boot from it, I don't no I'll leave it to greater computer minds than mine.

thanks for any help you can give.......

 

[o1die]

It's rare that an ide or sata port fail. Check your bios settings and enable all ide and sata devices, even raid; some boards won't detect sata except in raid mode. You can enable it without using it.

 

[pappysniper]

Thanks o1die for your reply, been into the bios setup but can't find where to turn these thing on. what I have tried is to try different HDD's on both ide and they are working fine.
I'v also tried 4 different cd/dvd roms plus an external rom, I always get the same problem so that would say that the ide controllers are working correctly,
If I update the bios do you think this will make a difference

thank's for your help.............