Optical Drive Not Showing up in BIOS

[WhatsGoingOn]

Hi all

Just finished building my first PC however the internal CD/DVD drive isn't being recognised by the BIOS. It opens and closes so it works mechanically but just isn't showing up. I have an Asus H110M-A motherboard and have flashed it so it's fully updated. I've tried swapping the cables around however it changes nothing. Any help? Did I short the drive?

 

[smorizio]

on the newer efi bios the cd rom drive should only show up under cd rom drives under the boot menu, with the newer efi bios they dont use a logo for cd rom drives they have defaulted all to just place cd rom or efi rom ico unless you go into advance mode.

 

[smorizio]

also you may need to set the bios to both efi and legacy for the cd rom to be seen.

 

[WhatsGoingOn]

on the newer efi bios the cd rom drive should only show up under cd rom drives under the boot menu, with the newer efi bios they dont use a logo for cd rom drives they have defaulted all to just place cd rom or efi rom ico unless you go into advance mode.

Interesting, however the problem I have is that it's showing up the SATA ports on the motherboard but not detecting the optical drive. I put it in SATA 4 next to my HDD and it just comes up blank on the BIOS.

 

[smorizio]

on the mb put the hard drive in port 0 and the cd crom in 1. on some of the newer mb if some features are on ports 3/4 can be disabled. check that there no bent pins on the data port of the cd rom.

 

[WhatsGoingOn]

on the mb put the hard drive in port 0 and the cd crom in 1. on some of the newer mb if some features are on ports 3/4 can be disabled. check that there no bent pins on the data port of the cd rom.

Changing the ports worked, thanks so much.