Bios won't recognize my CD drives

[Dawdygod]

I tried swapping cables and swapping IDE slots. nothing works. Sometimes it'll recognize my CD drive, but usually it doesn't. I've tried multiple drives and nothing seems to work. My hard drives are recognized just fine in either IDE slot. I'm thinking it has something to do with my motherboard. Should I flash the bios maybe??

 

[nanaki333]

sure.. give the BIOS a flash. couldn't hurt. you try messing with the jumpers on the drive? you putting the drive on its own IDE channel? try setting the jumper for master, just to force it into that.

 

[BlackMamba]

I had a problem like this with my EPOX 8RDA+, also a NForce2 board. A BIOS flash fixed it right up. It was caused by some faulty memory apparently and a bad CMOS save.

 

[nanaki333]

actually.. i didn't even notice you were running an nforce chipset board. make sure you have the latest chipset drivers from nvidia.com. my a7n8x-x was acting really flakey with my cd-rw drive i have in there until i updated the drivers.

maybe i should have asked this first, but is your cdrom showing up in your bios or is it just in windows where it refuses to make an appearence?