cd problem
 

just installed a new cdrw in my mates pc and took out the cdr. i have plugged everything in and set the drive to master on the drive rear. the power works and the drive opens and shuts but its not found by xp and in bios at bootup when the xp screen is about ot come on it says it found the hard drive then where it normally says the cd devices it says "EVENT LOG MESSAGES ENTER SETUP TO VIEW" ive entered setup but i cant find this error log messages thing. any ideas?

Re: cd problem
 

Is there another drive on the same lead ?

Re: cd problem
 

no on the motherboard there are 2 ide sockets and 1 floppy socket. the floppy is in as always and the hdd is in 1 of the ide sockets and the cdrw is in the remaining ide socket. i noted that the old cd drive jumper was set to master so i set the cdrw jumper to master aswell. i have plugged everything in ( power, ide cable, sound connection) but to no avail. the cd drive will eject and go in tho

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The cable from the the ide socket usually has two plugs on it,
I think the last one is master

Re: cd problem
 

Sounds like you should set the second one to auto detect, the old drive may be specified so it doesnt know what the new one is .
Edit> In Bios

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o ok so im gonna try these tommorow so is there any other ideas so i can do them all at once because it ages to get to there house and they have no internet. she cant do it shes think lol. thanks for the help so far!

Re: cd problem
 

The log viewer is under start/controlpanel/admin/log viewer

Would it be possible to take another(yours?) pc to try the cdrw?
or if you can't do that bring it home and try it?
Or take out yours and try in the other one ,,,,NO.:disturbd:.. forget that, thats asking for trouble

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Your jumpers are wrong- has the drive been swaptested on another PC?

Re: cd problem
 

The ide lead you used,Does it have a peg so that it will only plug in one way? if not make sure you use the 2 lines each side of the ide female plug to line up with the notch in the male.There is a chance you have the lead incorrectly placed

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allright thanks everyone im going in about an hour to there house. i dont have a pc me and my dad both have laptops. we have a media centre but i allready used all the ide's

Re: cd problem
 

So unplug something temporarily!

Re: cd problem
 

its working! i dont know what it was i unplugged the cables then plugged them back in and they both work now! thanks everyone.

o and im not going to mess around with my mce pc. its very very expensive