CDRom issues

[famoose]

Hi, I have a custom built computer that I have taken apart a few times and put back together (trying out different parts and such) but I am no where near experienced enough with computers. My ex put it together originally for me. I put it back together for the most part just fine, with the exception of my CDRom. First time it didn't work at all, second time the actual CDRom works it is just not being read by my computer. Like under my computer nothing is listed for the CDRom and I am not sure how to make it work again, and I really need to get it to work again. Could it be the actual connections, or is there something I need to do when I turn the computer on? Some help would be very much appreciated. Sorry if this isn't the right category to put this under.

 

[gary1]

SATA cable plugged in correctly? Power cable connected to drive?

 

[famoose]

Those are plugged in, yes.

 

[scout_03]

does the cd rom drive have it's driver install on the hdd with the os on

 

[famoose]

It supposedly is. I have never uninstalled anything, just unplugged. I was messing around with it earlier and it seems to be installed and "working" according to what I was looking at.

 

[smorizio]

if it an ide drive with a 40 pin data cable there are jumpers on ide drives master/slave/cs. if the cd-rom is by itself on ide cable it has to be set to master. if it with another cd rom one has to be set to master the other slave...most time it the one on the end of the cable is master. dell and hp use the cs position. to see if your drive is working use an audio cd and headphones. if the drive is working an audio cd will play without the need of any software. if there sata check to see that the bios sees them. sometime some older drives and sata you have to put the chipset into ide mode. if there seen in the bios the you may have the high/low cd-rom registry error.

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

If you have as bootable CD/DVD, see if you can boot from DVD drive
(example Windows XP/Vista or 7 disk or Linux such as Parted Magic or kaspersky rescue CD)

If you can boot from CD (after setting boot order to DVD first or press F12 on startup for Dell & some other PC's)
Then the problem is probably a corrupt registry entry

Google 'upper filter driver'
Microsoft has a down loadable fix program
(often caused by (un-) installing software which can write to optical drive

(do not use FIX program from any other site than microsoft.com to avoid trojan/virus)

regards
Mike Barnes