I retro installed a Liteon LTR40125s 40/12/48 cdrw but XP wont recognise it? any Idea how I can resolve this?

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I retro installed a Liteon LTR40125s 40/12/48 cdrw but XP wont recognise it? any Idea how I can resolve this?

It's a Lite-on CD rewriter model LTR40125s

2006-06-23 00:13:22 · 2 answers · asked by Rowdy answers 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware

Thanks guys you were right, it was the jumper settings, cdrom and cdrw were both set as slave! Now the problem is resolved!

2006-06-23 16:19:19 · update #1

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If XP isn't recognizing it there's several reasons why not.

1: Drive is actually bad
2: Bad\loose connection at motherboard or CD Drive
3: Bad IDE ribbon cable
4: IDE ribbon cable on backwards
5:Master\Slave Jumper set WRONG
6: Power connector loose, not connected, bad

2006-06-23 01:25:23 · answer #1 · answered by mrresearchman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋

I vote for jumper being set wrong on the back of the CD-ROM. The best setting is probably "Cable Select".

2006-06-23 07:12:01 · answer #2 · answered by manningsjunk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋