dvdrom and rw not detected help noob alert!

[xirokx]

Hi all!

the noob is back! a mate needed to borrow my dvd rw so i took it out of my pc and everything was fine i reset the jumpers back to what they were and plugged it in as it was b4.
i was about to burn a dvd when i realised that neither the dvd rom drive or the rw are shown in my computer. both drives open and close though (dont no if that makes a difference) i opened my pc and had a look and realised or so i thought that the reason it wasnt working was the IDE cable that connects the 2 drives was not plugged into the motherboard so i plugged it in, then when i turned on the pc it stops at detecting ide drives and wont boot up.
ive tried using a different ide cable but the same thing happens!

as i look back at it now i realise i was a wally to take it out in the first place but hindsight is a great thing eh!

is there some setting that only i can miss or have i done something wrong or is it all just broken lol?

please help and be gentle

cheers!

[whatnow]

have you plugged the IDE cable in the right way around?

also definatly checked the jumper settings are correct, i.e. master and slave?

they'll open and shut becuase they've got a power source. You'll need to check on your BIOS (Del@ startup if it's not shown) to see if the drives are installed correctly before you boot windows.

[xirokx]

thanx for quick reply mate! yeah jumpers are correct dvd rom set to master and dvdrw set to slave.

i think the cable is the right way round it doesnt fit the other way

what am i lookin for when i go into bios? just that they are shown or will it say if theres a prob? also i didnt fiddle with the bios settings when i took the drive out would they have been altered?

cheers!

[xirokx]

its working now although i think just because it wanted to rather than anything i did!

i left it off for an hour to eat and watch a bit of telly came back and lo and behold it worked! so not sure what on earth happened there!

thanks for your help tho mate k+

[whatnow]

lol no problem, sounds like possibly you had a lose connection which you fixed somehow? fook knows as u sound liek everything was set up properly.

glad it's working now