New ASUS Mobo not recognising IDE CD/DVD Drive

Hi I bought this motherboard yesterday:

ASUS AM3 M4A87TD/USB

Almost everything is working fine, I have a SATA hard drive which is picked up fine on SATA port 1. I have an IDE CD/DVD Drive which is connected to the only IDE port available on the board.

The IDE cable is NOT faulty, it works on my old machine, as does the drive.

I updated the BIOS Sata 5/6 port drivers for IDE (flashing the bios) with the latest ROM drivers on the ASUS website.

However the PC will still not find the CD/DVD drive in BIOS or Windows7???

I am at a complete loss, but have read that there have been previous issues with some drives not being recognised by ASUS boards.

I can't tell if it is being picked up in BIOS, it certainly doesn't show under drives, but under boot up options there is an option to Boot from ATAPI CD drive, don't know if that is there as standard or if that is referring to my specific drive.

The drive is an old 16x pioneer CD/DVD RW

Can anyone shed any ideas????

Much appreciated!!!!

Thanks!

Oh and I know I could just go out and buy a sata drive and they are only about 15 squid, but I am determined to get it working because it should!

 

I've had this happen on a couple new boards over the past year (Biostar). Make sure the IDE port is enabled in the BIOS. Also try the drive in Master, Slave or cable select jumpers. I had one where it wouldn't be seen when set as master, but worked when set to slave.

I keep a couple IDE cd/dvd drives around for working on older systems but have gone to SATA on newer stuff cause they seem to have problems with IDE devices. Had one where it would not work with an IDE hard drive, SATA worked fine.

Sam

 

I'm ashamed to admit it but........

The lead wasn't plugged in properly!!! rolleyes:-o

I swear it looked right and I even pressed it in again to make sure


Ha!!! Working a treat now, thanks for the reply anyway!

 

Not the first problem I encountered through stupidity either lol!!!!

I bought new motherboard, CPU, tower, ram etc but decided to keep my crappy old graphics card for now which is an 7 year old Nvidia 6600....

I plugged it in, it fit the PCI Express 16 slot, so I assumed it would work..

Everything else looked to be connected up OK...

Fired it up for the first time and could hear it booting up, no BIOS beeps, harddrive ticking over but no signal from video card??? WTF????

Presumed it was sooo old it must not be compatible, after 2 hours extensive reading on forums I realised that.....

The RAM was in the wrong slots!!! Moved the ram to the right place and I had DISPLAY!!!!!!!

Computers eh? What are they like?

 

Don't feel bad. I can't count the number of times I've troubleshooted the hell out of an IDE piece of hardware, only to figure out that reseating the plug fixes the problem. Honestly, that's one thing I always hated about the IDE interface -- VERY finicky about the connectors (both on the 'board and on the hardware connected!).