Tired to install a new CD/RW

It doesn't show up the computer. I tired to install the new CD/RW to replace a CD/RW. My motherboard only had 2 IDE connections. I addng the 3rd CD/RW from the hard drive connection and it won't work. No CD was shown on it.

How need to find out?

My CD/RW is Sony 52x/24x/52x.

Isn't this in the Geek thing forum? Fortunatly I am a geek.

You need to make sure that you:

1) Go into the BIOS when your computer comes on
2) Designate the new drive as the secondary Master or secondary Slave, if you haven't already done so.
3) What version of Windows are you using?

- Dzur

[MAXed Out]

Make sure to your connecting the cables rite and if u have another cdrom in ur pc u set one of them as master and one of them as slave.

I give up because I having trouble with install the new cd/rw.

I see the secondary Master or secondary Slave, but there is no cable.

I am using Win XP home.

do you know what a jumper is? you have to tell it to make the jumpers master and slave too depending on what you set it to. they are on the back of the drive and if you set them for master you tell the bios to be master.

[ebpda9]

some of the cd burners don't like to be on the same ide controller as the hdd. anyway i would try a 40 pin 80 wire ribbon cable for that setup. also set the hdd as the master and slave for the burner. aso make sure the hdd is at the end of the ribbon cable, and not in the middle

[drdingo21]

Originally posted by GeneralDzur
Isn't this in the Geek thing forum? Fortunatly I am a geek.

You need to make sure that you:

1) Go into the BIOS when your computer comes on
2) Designate the new drive as the secondary Master or secondary Slave, if you haven't already done so.
3) What version of Windows are you using?

- Dzur

You can't do this unless it is set to cable select.



pbateson,

The way it works in a computer is really simple, so rather than just tell you how to fix it, ill explain the way it works.

There are 2 channels on the motherboard (where the ribbon plugs into) you can add upto 2 devices on each channel.
There is the secondary channel and a primary channel. The primary channel is where the boot device sits (the hard drive) and its set to Master. The mother board goes to the master device to boot. You can stick any other device anywhere else on any of the cables, just as long as you follow the scheme. Master first, slave second.

Now if you fill up all the slots on the IDE cable (the ribbon), every device will work just as long as you have it set for master and slave. The motherboard will label the master device on the primary controller as the primary master, and the second device on the primary controller as primary slave.
When you fill up the devices on the second controller the mother board will label them as secondary master, and secondary slave.

Now for your problem. What do you mean by had two IDE connectors? Did you actually add a ribbon? Or do you have one ribbon in the computer? If the new CDRW is plugged into a cable that is also plugged into another device, then you have to set the CDRW opposite of what the other drive is. For example if the other drive is master, then make the CDRW slave.