Download the Tom's Hardware App from the App Store
The reference for current tech news
Yes No
Ads
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > CD/DVD Drives > Dvd rom not being recognized

Dvd rom not being recognized

Forum Storage : CD/DVD Drives Dvd rom not being recognized

Related Content
You have searched for "Dvd rom not being recognized" . You might be interested in the following threads:

See more for "Dvd rom not being recognized"

Can't find your answer?
Ask!

General Discussion

|

Hard Drives

|

CD/DVD Drives

|

CD/DVD Writers

|

Optical Media

|

Flash Media

|

NAS/RAID

|

SSD

|

Buffalo Tech

|

QNAP

|

RunCore

Word :    Username :           
 
questone   07-25-2011 at 07:31:08 PM
- 0 +

Hello there,
I am having a problem with the motherboard detecting the cd rom drive
here is the caper in detail
I have had the drive tested (it works)
but it is not recognized by the bios or the mother board as far as I can tell.I have deleted all values for the dvd in registry and hoping on reboot it would recognize it and it did not work
Now I've read somewhere that there is some sort of cable from the dvd to the motherboard
the machine is a
F740ES from compaq
windows 7 ultimate
2 gb ram
the CD/DVD rw is AD-7530B (stock)(P-ATA)
bios version F.0A
I'm

Reply to questone
Register or log in to remove.
tokencode   07-25-2011 at 08:25:26 PM
- 0 +

Check your jumper settings if its PATA. You may have it set incorrectly. Is the drive chained to any other drives on the same PATA interface?

Reply to tokencode
Ask the community Add a reply
See all topics related to "Dvd rom not being recognized"
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > CD/DVD Drives > Dvd rom not being recognized
Go to:

There are 1877 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.341 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Ads
Latest best answer
HDD Setup Help
By price_th, 13 hours ago:

Yes, Window will create a partition on a drive with none.

Related Topics
See all relatives topics
Best offers
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
How do I win badges?
Top experts
Become an expert The rank