Installed New CD-RW, Old CD-ROM Really Messed Up

[Dove19983]

I finally got a 16X10X40 burner and I installed it and now my normal cd-rom is really messed up. Here's a little info on what I went through.
I have 2 hard drives, and a cd-rom drive.
I had main hd on the main IDE and the 2nd hd and the cdrom on the 2nd IDE I dont know why I just did. Anyway the cdrom jumper was set on cable select so I set it to slave and the cd-rw to master. I put the 2nd HD on the 1st IDE and made it slave, booted up it windows didnt see the 2nd HD. The main HD had Cable select when I took that jumper off and then it didnt see the cd-rom (I think thats what happened). Now when I boot up the cdrom light stays on and I cant open it and windows does not see it.

OK I have tried changing the IDE cable and trying a different power connector.

[SPEEDO]

OK
Set your main HD jumpers to master.
Set your second HD jumpers to slave,
Put those on Primary IDE Channel.
Set the burner Jumpers to master.
Set the CD Rom jumpers to slave.
Put those onto the Secondary IDE.
Set the bios to auto detect drives.
Try This!!

SPEEDO

[Dove19983]

Sorry If I ranted to much but thats how I have it set, well had it set before I disconnected the power and IDE connectors from it.

[SPEEDO]

Ranting is acceptable.

Sledgehammers Not.

Oh is it working?

SPEEDO

[This message has been edited by SPEEDO (edited 08-16-2001).]

[Dove19983]

I tried messing around with it some more today still couldnt get it to work. I also left out that the little reading/working light stays on from the time I turn the computer on till I turn it off.

[Super-Dave]

What power-supply and processor do you have? It is likely that you are drawing more power than your supply can supply.

I had a similar problem which went away when I got a new case (from 230 to 250 watts) also got a new m/b, so don't know if that made the difference or not

If you have less than a 250 watt power supply, then that is almost definatley your problem. Try a bigger supply if you can

Hope that works

[Dove19983]

Nope thats not it I shutdown unpluged the IDE and power from the CD-RW set the CD-ROM to Master, disabled the slave in BIOS set the master to auto. Still the power light stayed on I couldnt open it windows didnt see it.

[Philip1952]

If this is a bus link burner. The one I have doesn't like anything else on the cable with it. (Plus the cable with it only had one plug on it. They planed it that way looks like). I tried it with all combo's of hard drive and cd-rom. I ended up putting it on its own channel. Then every thing worked good. Glad it was a board with built in raid.
I have a light on in another computer. It doesn't care one bit what you put with it.

[griobhta]

Does your Bios detect your cd-rom drive?
Also try using a Windows boot disk and see if you can access the drive from the promt, this will isolate a windows problem.

As you said the cr-rom drive worked fine as cable select try set it back.

You could also try to set the system up exactly like it was before just as a last resort.

Is it an old drive?

[Dove19983]

Well tried that BIOS does not see it. Boot disk says cant detect cdrom and does not finish loading the driver. Im guessing that the drive is messed up because as soon as power is on to my computer the light comes on and does not turn off.
I tried setting it but to CS and that didnt work.
I just have no idea what is wrong with this thing.

[Fisheagle]

My 2 cents.

Try switching CD Rom & Burner positions... Slave/Master Master/Slave.

Make sure Master/Slave jumpers on devices are set correctly

Try another cable.

Make sure the IDE cable connector is not reveresed.

And when you think everything is as it should be... look again carefully.

[This message has been edited by Fisheagle (edited 08-18-2001).]