I was hoping that when I booted up windows it would gimmie that new found hardware thing. and i could download a driver. but i don'y get anything there's not even an icon for it in my drives. it only lits my hard drive and and CD rom. i tried the add new hardware wizard but that was a bust too. i just need to know where to start.
2007-01-19 07:05:02 · 9 answers · asked by Rat 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
double check that you got the jumpers correct setting slave or master
sounds like that could be it
2007-01-19 07:09:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Run install Hardware from Control Panel. Have the Drivers and Setup software on the CD available in the drive, or loaded on to the Hard Drive.
When you get to select the driver for the CD Burner, use the "Have own Disk" option, and select the driver from the Software Disk, Hard Drive, or USB ( should you so Select)
2007-01-19 15:09:33 · answer #2 · answered by Mictlan_KISS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cd or dvd units dont use the windows installer. Your bios automatically detects it. You should see it during boot. Open my computer and it should show as a drive. If it doesnt, check the jumper settings on the drive and make sure it is set to the slave position if you have another cd unit. If you dont, set it as master. If it doesnt show up in my computer after this, the drive is probably trashed. If you see it in my computer, you can burn with the latest windows media player. You will however need burning software if you want to burn anything other than mdia files.
2007-01-19 15:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are 2 IDE lines:
Primary and secondary. Each has two connectors. On each line you can put 2 device (hard drives or cd drives or mix). One device should be configured as "master", another as "slave". Take a look on the back of devices. There are jumper (or jumpers) witch configure master/slave and some pictures with jumper positions on back top
2007-01-19 15:37:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to the website of the company that made the hardware and see if there are any plug ins or Drivers for that model, and download them.
Windows wont recognize it, if it dhas never seen it before and has nothing to reference it from.
2007-01-19 15:10:14 · answer #5 · answered by Harold M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the jumpers and read the manual carefully.
Also you may want to configure the bios settings.
Make sure that if it is a slave drive it is set as a slave on the jumpers and the master drive's jumpers are set correctly.
Just a thought
RJ
2007-01-19 15:09:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Start by double checking you cables. Make sure the data cable is connected to the correct place on your mobo. Check the jumper on the back of the drive and try the SL (Slave) position.
2007-01-19 15:10:25 · answer #7 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go on line and find the driver for the model that you have. Then download it and use it.
2007-01-19 15:09:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Use it as a cup holder!
2007-01-19 16:15:07 · answer #9 · answered by john_ven24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋