i have obviously a tower pc, 1 sony dvd rom drive and a sony dvd rw. I want to remove the Rom drive as its abit dodgy and install this pioneer in its place, so i took off the side casing, unscrewed the rom drive, and simply plugged in my new sparkly pioneer using the existing leads......NOTHING,,,,not a sausage, apparently the pc cant find where to boot from now. SO, i then went into the boot set up (f11) and when i look for my hard drive its not in the list, so i then just put the old drive back in as it was and everything boots up again as it did! what the hells wrong? please somebody help
2006-11-11 00:56:22 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You probably connected the new CD drive on the same cable as your Hard drive. There are configuration jumpers on the back that you did not set.
The possibilities are MASTER, SLAVE and CABLE SELECT. I would look at the old CD Drive and make the same settings. If the Hard drive is set to MASTER, then the CD should be set to SLAVE. If the Hard drive is set to Cable Select, then the CD should be set to Cable select.
Good luck
2006-11-11 01:14:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the jumper settings at the back of the drive make sure that it is set the same way as the rom drive you took out. Master or slave..
Make sure that the connections are in properly and reboot.
When rebooting you should see it pop up on the boot screen if not check the device manager and bios again
2006-11-11 01:09:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/cdrom/index.html and check your jumper settings
2006-11-11 01:01:58 · answer #3 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋