cd-rom absent in control panel

[glennn]

hi i just reformated a computer which i made up out of spare parts ,when i put power onto the computer it recognises the primary master hard drive and secondary master cd-rom on startup ,but when i click on my computer its not in there ,when i put a cd in you here it spinning but nothing happens? any ideas, ihave looked in the setu/bios section and compared the imformation ie,enable/disable,to another computer? glenn

[rmanet]

Is the BIOS seeing the drive - sounds like you have your drives - what brand HDD - cabled (master, slave, primary, secondary) or jumpered incorrectly - try checking that first and post back.

[glennn]

hi,thanks for that, i swopped over leads and everything,i looked in device manager and it told me off a couple of problems ,which also indicated the yellow indicators on the pci rails,this problem was to deep for me so i reformated again untill windows finalily loaded with the cd rom pressent,i tried the cd player out and it sounded horrible so i put another in its place and a music cd sounsd fine,may be that faulty cd rom was always the problem? anyway thanks and i hope you didnt lose any sleep over my problem.

[megaspazz]

Maybe your first cdrom drive just packed it in.
Any chance it might've been hotplugged or just on
it's last legs?:confused:

[rmanet]

Originally posted by glennn
hi,thanks for that, I swapped over leads and everything,i looked in device manager and it told me off a couple of problems ......anyway thanks and I hope you didnt lose any sleep over my problem.

Hope you're all set - never a problem for us - except over guys who don't listen to anyone's advice, can't get organized enough to follow the steps needed to isolate a problem, etc.

when that happens we don't lose sleep, it's just time to move on to the next thread :t