cyberdrive cdrw

[Guest]

I have been building a computer from scratch. I cannot get my computer to recognise that I have a cyberdrive cdrw. It does not power up at post. However, if I take out the IDE cable leaving the power cable in, it receives power as i can open the tray. Also it is recognised in my other computer so the drive itself is not faulty.
I have tried it in all the master/slave cominations I can think of. (My Pioneer dvd works on the secondary ide channel, but I have taken that out while I tried to get the computer to recognise the cdrw.) Something is obviously happening as when the cdrw is connected it slows the computer down at power-up and it takes ages to get to the Windows 98 splash screen (disconnected it whizzes through)
I have tried to auto detect in the bios.
I have run out of ideas.
I have a ecs k7s6a motherboard with athlon 1800 and a maxtor 40gb hard drive set as primary master
Please help

 

[phsstpok]

That's a strange problem all right. I'd try a different IDE cable even an 80-conductor one. For testing you might want to disconnect all other ATA devices just to see if your BIOS will even recognize the drive.

If you do get it working I recommend downloading the Nero and InCD updates at <A HREF="http://www.nero.com" target="_new">www.nero.com</A>. The version of InCD (3.18 I think) that shipped with my 36X Cyberdrive was giving me BSODs and IDE slowdowns with Windows 98SE. InCD 3.24.3 works great, though.

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[Guest]

Thanks for the advice, phsstpok. I have tried both your suggestions and it's still not playing. The drive does work though because i can install it on my older computer. i have tried it through a promise ultra 100 card as well on the new motherboard and it doesn't recognise it either.

 

[phsstpok]

Well, it's got me stumped. Sorry.

Your problem reminds me of one with newer Western Digital drives not being recognized on some Abit motherboards (mostly KT7 & KT7A boards). The drives weren't being recognize at the BIOS level. The problem turned out to be a glitch in the drives' firmware. The fix was a replacement cable from Western Digital that had pins 1 & 2 cut (on an 80 conductor cable). I'm not suggesting this as a fix for your problem. I just mentioned it because the problems sound similar.



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