CD-ROMs not being detected

[Cerana]

I recently upgraded to an AMD 64 chip and Chaintech vnf-250 mobo. After I got them installed sucessfully it won't recognize my cd-roms in Win XP any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[spanky]

are the optical drive detected when the pc is posting? are your optical drives and hard drives on different ide channels? if so, maybe u can try switching them and see what happens.

 

[jackschmittusa]

How did you install xp without a cd drive? Use a hd with the old install from the old mb that now has the wrong ide drivers on it?

 

[Cerana]

Yes I did use my old hd with the old mobo drivers on it, but i got rid of those and replaced them with the new mobo drivers.

 

[Cerana]

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[Andyman53]

Go to start, run type "sfc /scannow" without quotes. It will check windows files and make sure they're not corrupted. If that doesn't work do an install ontop of the existing windows installation via "repair" function. That should do that trick.

 

[Cerana]

Ok, thank you I will try that and then post in a bit what happens

 

[Cerana]

It keeps telling me that files that are required for Windows to run properly must be copied to the DLL cache. Then it tells me to put in the Win XP disc to get them. That in turn tells me that i don't have the correct disc in the drive probably because the CD-rom isn't being detected.

 

[KGB]

Yes I did use my old hd with the old mobo drivers on it, but i got rid of those and replaced them with the new mobo drivers.

Try reverting back to original MS IDE drivers.

 

[Cerana]

Ok, I will try that tomorrow and post back on what happens, thanks!

 

[Cerana]

That unfortunately hasn't worked. I did notice that while restarting the computer that neither one of my CD-ROMS shows up on the list. Is there something in the BIOS I can do to try and fix this? Thanks!

 

[Fern]

Is the light (LED) on the cd-rom always on?

 

[montag451]

sorry - can you confirm that neither of your cd's are showing up in the bios?

or did you mean they arent showing in winexplorer?

 

[Cerana]

Nope the light isn't always on, and they're not showing up in both win explorer and the bios

 

[Kay0s24]

had this same problem a litle while back. im guessing you have 2+ CD-Rom drives correct ? And you tried connecting both to the Mobo at the same time after installing Windows Xp, Correct ?... and thats when neither one of your drives were recognized by windows upon start up. The solution to this problem is simply to connect only ONE drive to the Mobo at a time, and boot up windows, It will recognize that drive, then Shut Down, and connect the second as you would normally, and boot up windows again, windows should now recognize both drive. Still dont know why this happens, but I had the same problem when Clean installing Windows XP Pro, on a new system I built.

 

[montag451]

please tell us if that works - a simple fix??!??

 

[Cerana]

Ok cool, I will try this now. Sorry it took me a bit to post back on it but I am a busy comp sci student lol

 

[Cerana]

Nope, that didn't work unfortunately

 

[Cerana]

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