Help with dvd drive !!

[fretome]

I have a celeron pc with win milenium 900 mhz ,working fine ,exept the dvd drive, is not working and i cannot see the drive icon in my computer,so i bought a new one and still the same,computer wont reconize it.
anyone knows i'll be thankful.

is the drive being seen by the bios?

[John Prophet]

ok, several questions.

Does it show up in bios? or when you are booting do you see it listed on those black and white screens? (when it is detected ide devices etc)

If you go into bios, under 'standard cmos" (or whatever the first thing on top is) and you set everything to auto..does it show up then?

Or...just tell us what you have listed under "standard cmos"

Is there anything in your device manager listed with yellow question marks??

Did the old one ever work?

Is the DVD on a cable by itself or with another cdrom or with a hard drive?

When you put the new one in, how did you have the jumper set??

Also..a possibility is that the IDE cable isnt sitting all the way down into the little slot on the motherboard. Press it down and make sure it is seated in there good.
JP

[fretome]

Yes,when pc boot i could see drive as a secundary master slave,but no visible in my computer.

[John Prophet]

hmmm. How about in device manager..do you see any yellow question marks? what is listed in device manager for "cdrom" and also for "hard disk controllers"?

JP

[fretome]

it was a icon in device manager but i delete it thinking them that
was making a conflict ,yea drive is togheter with hard drive and jumper is in slave,also i try puting drive alone in secondary idE
and same result, yea ribbon is all way down.
still so confuse!!

[Detritus]

Are you by any chance using an 80 (UDMA) cable to connect both your harddrive and your DVD-ROM. I have had problems in the past like you are describing when I do this. Your DVD-ROM should have a 40 pin cable and your Hard Drive may need an 80 pin cable...

[fretome]

no, i use 40 pin cable ,hard drive too and it was working before
with same cable i put new one ,still the same