Bios misses DVD

[sussertown]

My bios only sees my master DVD drive and does not see the slave DVD drive. I have a newer auto sensing bios for an MSI mb.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Since the BIOS doesn't see it, I'll assume the OS doesn't see it. Did you set the jumpers correctly? Are you using cable select? Did you remember to attach power to the slave drive?

 

[MobiusPizza]

Most probably jumper setting

 

[leigh6]

If windows is not seeing the drive.

First. To save you from having to remove and check the drive.

As Calvin says check to see that all cables are connected securely. If they are:

Shut down computer and remove the cable connection from the dvd drive. (The big connector not the power)
Boot up to windows and then shutdown.
Reattach the cable and boot up again.

If windows doesnt see the drive then you will have to check the jumper settings.

If that doesnt work. I DONT KNOW.

 

[sussertown]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Wrong.

The OS sees the drive. But, when I boot the computer I can boot to DVD 0 but not DVD 1. I can't find DVD 1 in the options of the bios.

 

[leigh6]

Now that is the way to be appreciative of people trying to help.

 

[sussertown]

You miss the humor. It's the sound of the buzzer at a quizz show. Next time I'll insert a wav file.

 

[Zepper]

So the BIOS actually DOES see the drive (writing clearly solves so many problems) - you just THINK(?) you can't boot from it. Well, have you even TRIED to boot from it? :roll:

.bh.

 

[Oyeve]

Go into your bios setings and look for boot order or something like that, I bet you see the drive there. Unless you mobo and bios really suck.

 

[sussertown]

Oh yes. Clearly stated, I looked for it in the boot order dialog and I tried booting from it. Neither seemed to be of value.

 

[Zepper]

If the BIOS didn't see the drive, then Win wouldn't see the drive either. You don't see more than one HD listed in the boot sequence dialog either but in the case of HDs it will hunt down the queue until it finds an active primary partition to boot from. Maybe that is NOT the case with ATAPI drives.
. Well then, your computer may only boot from the first optical in the list. Or maybe only from an optical drive in a Master position on a channel. I know I can boot from either my IDE burner (master on a channel) or my SCSI burner (set to be bootable in the SCSI adapter's BIOS) but I don't have two IDE opticals so I could see if I could boot from a slave optical.

.bh.

 

[sussertown]

I'll run a test and let you guys know. I may have tried it from a cd that wasn't working anyway.