confusing optical drive problem, HELP!

[QueBert]

working on a PC for somebody, older HP (athlon 800) his dvd drive came up in windows as a cd drive, if I tried to put a dvd in it wouldn't see it. he upgraded to a new MB+CPU. Kept the same optical drives. When it POST's, it detects a Samsung DVD drive, I verified that also in the bios, but when XP starts up, it's showing it as a CD drive still. Any ideas why this is freaking happening?

thanks

 

[Ika]

have you tried checking drivers? look for the DVD drive's driver disc and try reinstalling that.

 

[QueBert]

drivers? only drivers optical drives have are dos level, I've never had to install any drivers to get a optical to run under windows. Hummm maybe I'll just give up

 

[daveybrat]

Maybe because HP and Compaq Cdrom drives are garbage quality. I can't tell you how many i've replaced over the years.