I apologize if this question's been answered before, but I've looked around and I can't seem to find anything that might help me. Basically, this is the situation:
I purchased some components to build my own system (specifics later) and now that I've got everything connected (from what I can tell), it POSTs, I have floppy drive support, it detects both my hard drives, but I can't get it to detect either my Plextor 24/10/40A CD-RW or my Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM. I know that the Plextor drive works, as I transferred it over from my old computer. This is a problem because without CD-ROM support, I can't install Windows 2000 Pro. I've created the 4 boot disks for it, I've formatted the hard drive (its an 80gb WD that I just bought, nothing on it... used the WD disk to format/partition it). I'm using a P4S533 motherboard, with a P4 2.26ghz 533fsb, no other problems except I can't get the BIOS to detect my CD-ROMs. Any suggestions? Could my IDE cable be dead? Am I missing a jumper of some sort of the motherboard? Do I need a specific jumper setting on my CD-ROM? I have the BIOS config set to auto, but it tries to detect the "Secondary Master Device... None" and comes back with no device. If I set the Secondary Master Device to CD-ROM in my BIOS, it fails in detecting it as well. This is the first computer I've built, so I'm sort of stumped here. Any comments, answers, links, or whatnot would be immensely appreciated. Thanks for your time.
I purchased some components to build my own system (specifics later) and now that I've got everything connected (from what I can tell), it POSTs, I have floppy drive support, it detects both my hard drives, but I can't get it to detect either my Plextor 24/10/40A CD-RW or my Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM. I know that the Plextor drive works, as I transferred it over from my old computer. This is a problem because without CD-ROM support, I can't install Windows 2000 Pro. I've created the 4 boot disks for it, I've formatted the hard drive (its an 80gb WD that I just bought, nothing on it... used the WD disk to format/partition it). I'm using a P4S533 motherboard, with a P4 2.26ghz 533fsb, no other problems except I can't get the BIOS to detect my CD-ROMs. Any suggestions? Could my IDE cable be dead? Am I missing a jumper of some sort of the motherboard? Do I need a specific jumper setting on my CD-ROM? I have the BIOS config set to auto, but it tries to detect the "Secondary Master Device... None" and comes back with no device. If I set the Secondary Master Device to CD-ROM in my BIOS, it fails in detecting it as well. This is the first computer I've built, so I'm sort of stumped here. Any comments, answers, links, or whatnot would be immensely appreciated. Thanks for your time.