new CD drive not visible

[DJ-CHRIS]

Him is right and the BIOS will have the drivers for CD-ROM drives in newer computers.

Personally this drive sounds broken

 

[noboundaries]

i recomend getting new drivers, then check your connections, then check bios

 

[tarantulatarama]

I have applied for drivers from teac; the disc doesn't show up in diskmgmt.msc. Broken disc? might be, it looked a bit second hand... the vendor is reputable, but not infallible i guess.

tx

 

[ShoobieRat]

I have applied for drivers from teac; the disc doesn't show up in diskmgmt.msc. Broken disc? might be, it looked a bit second hand... the vendor is reputable, but not infallible i guess.

tx

Does the light on the drive come on when you turn the PC on? When you put in a CD, does it spin-up and blink?

 

[hercules_upw]

Personally this drive sounds broken

i Agree. If there is no " ? " device found in the hardware/device manager, then the drive is probably dead...Drivers will not fix this problem.

 

[tarantulatarama]

hdd light on: check; spin and blink: check; my computer: negatory.

is it the opinion of this forum that we have a bust disc drive? As I said earlier, it did look like it had been opened/used when I recieved it...

 

[ShoobieRat]

Just because it doesn't show up in My-Computer, or the device manager, doesn't mean the drive is dead.

How are your jumpers set, and what else (if anything) is connected on that IDE chain?

 

[tarantulatarama]

How are your jumpers set, and what else (if anything) is connected on that IDE chain?

sorry shoob, you're gonna have to explain!

jumpers?

IDE chain?

sorry & thanks.

I got the drive out of the packaging and stuck it in the laptop. Simple as that.

 

[ShoobieRat]

Sorry, it was late.

Anyway, what other devices use that slot?
Forget the jumpers. Does BIOS recognize the drive?

 

[tarantulatarama]

sorry shoob, I'm not a 'virgin techie' (how do I change this?!) for nothing! - Which slot - the physical space the drive occupies? nothing else. as for the bios, I'll get back to you on that one. (f5 on restart isn't it?)

tx