CD BURNER & EXISTING DVD DRIVE???

[Pghpooh]

Hi
Yesterday I was given the honor by my daughter and her roomie of upgrading a Gateway pc. Waiting for me was a new video card,,, scanner and cd burner
I was able to install the burner. It is a Philips 8x4x32 (I think)
The burner seems to work as it should.
The problem is,,, I want to be able to keep and use the old dvd rom unit and use it along with the burner.
I installed both the burner and dvd on same the ide port making the burner the master and the dvd the slave. When I power the pc up, it looks like the bios sees both units. When I go to explorer, I see both a D and E drive.
Now,, while in explorer, when I click on the D drive, it does not see it. If I remember right, (after 36 hours passing) I think it says Drive not ready. Also get the same thing on the E drive.
I put a cd in both drives and tried to open them up and get the same message.
If I power down the burner, the dvd works as it should. If I power down the dvd, the burner works.
I was wondering,, should I put the dvd on the ide with the hard drive, making the dvd the slave and hard drive the master and then put the dvd on the secondary ide port at the master????
All help and suggestions ARE NEEDED!!!!
Thanks
Pghpooh

 

[Tsaico]

That is strange, never had a problem like this, but I would start wth the bios. Enter through there and make sure everything is set to auto(drive detection) or use the auto detect drives function in the bios. Next, I would check to make sure the drives are set to master and slave correctly, CD-ROMs usually don't havce too complicated a setup for the jumpers settings, but double checking never hurts. See if these two help any...