cd burner

today i installed a cd burner.but i have a problem.whenever i hook up the burner ribbon,neither it or my regular cd-rom will work at all.im postive i have the right ribbon for the burner.if i unhook the burner ribbon,my standard cd-rom will play,but my burner wont,and if i try just hooking up my burner alone,it still wont work.like i said if i have themed hooked up at the same time,neither will work at all.the nero software installed easily.im very low on free space,about 349mb left,could that be part of the problem?it makes no sense,the burner fit it perfectlybut i cant have it installed because it knoks it and my other cd-rom out.can someone help me please?

 

Do the detect when you computer boots? Most PC's have a "BIOS show" It should look something like this:

IDE Detection...
IDE 0 M: WD HDD
IDE 0 S: None
IDE 1 M: CD-ROM
IDE 1 S: CD-RW

It generally takes place right after the RAM count and keyboard/mouse detection.

If they do not detect there, what are the slave/master jumper settings on each drive? First make sure none of them are set to "Cable Select" or "CS". Set one drive to "Master" (M) and one to "Slave" (S). Technically, you should set the CD drive in the middle of the ribbon to "Master" and the one at the end to "Slave", but it doesn't really matter. Indeed, you're supposed to be ablt to set two CDs both to "Slave" and have it work, so you might try that.

If your CD drives appear to be connected properly, but still don't detect in BIOS:
1. Try a different ribbon cable.
2. Check your BIOS to make sure the IDE channels are all set to "Auto Detect" and not "Disabled".
3. Try a different IDE channel. This generally means you swap the one the HDD is on with the one your CDs are on. This shouldn't affect how Windows boots, but XP and 2k might yell at you after booting, or they might not let you boot at all.

If your CDs are detecting in your BIOS and not Windows, well... there could be a whole slew of things going on.

 

Cable select will cause nothing but problems. I can almost guarantee that. Very few ribbon cables support them. Indeed, the only ones that seem to consistently are the 80-pin (ATA-133) ones. He'd be much better along to set both to slave.

 

Why is this in software, again?

 

i give up,you need to rememer that some of us are newbies and dont understand your advanced learning.i dont have the slighest idea what you wrote to me,its all greek to me.maybe its my low disk space causing it,i dont know

 

THere are jumpers on the rear part of your drive. If the ribbon hooks to both drives, then to the motherboard, one of the drives jumpers should be set on the "master" position, and the other drive to the "slave" position. Most drives come set on master, and can cause problems when both are on one cable.

What make is the new drive?


PS: Don't be offended if this thread gets moved to the Hardware forum.

 

set the burner to master and the cd rom to slave. IDE cable #1 to the harddrive only and IDE cable #2 to the cd drives.

 

The times I have used cable select, I have had no problems either. I still use master/slave settings out of habit.

Old dog,,, new tricks,, yada yada

 

yet again,i dont know what "slave" master" or "cable select"mean.i didnt put the burner in,im a newbie,i have no idea what your talking about.i couldnt get to bios with the instructiions given.also,again,i would like to know if my low free space"now 300mb)have anything to do with it,thanks

 

I don't see how low disk space could cause problems with your cd burner.

 

I dont see why your low disk space should matter. Although I'd straighten that out. On the back of your cd-rom and your new cd-burner you will see a jumper block with a small jumper probably set to master. somewhere on the drives it will show you which setting is which. Set the burner to master and the cd-rom to slave. Or you can attempt to set both to cable select. Hope this helped somewhat

 

on my old compaq 5400 series the bios key was F10 you can play around with the ide settings and not much else everything was locked out in the factory

 

sorry bout that ive just read through this post again and realised you never mentioned a compaq getting you confused with a different post

 

http://www.lgeservice.com/jump.html

take a look there. it will explain wat he umper does and where it will be. Basically you need one drive with it's jumper set to slave and one drive with it's jumper set to master. This way the PC knows what drive is what on the cable.

 

You da Man FW.

I searched for a diagram last night,, couldn't find one.