invalid cd-rom?

[omnez]

So I am trying to install a cd-rom in my friends computer, its abotu 5 years old, a gateway with a p2. Her cd-rom started messing up abotu a year ago, meaning it would only detect cds somtimes, and now it wont at all. I tried to install a new one, an old 4x, jsut because she does not need anything fabulous. When I first did it, windows simply did not detect the new one, so I restarted with a different cd-rom, that did not work either. After all this I just decided to put the old one back untill I find a better one, but now when I try to put the old one it, the boot up says it can not detect an operationg system, that happens unless I remove the IDE from the motherboard.. I did have the pins on the back right. Any suggestions?

 

[compudog]

Try a new cable. Also, put the CDROM as the Master on the secondary channel and the hard drive as the Master on the primary channel. Give that a shot.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

quite a few older(and current) OEM machines used CS(CableSelect) on their configs..as always YMMV ..good luck

 

[omnez]

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon
quite a few older(and current) OEM machines used CS(CableSelect) on their configs..as always YMMV ..good luck

and that would mean.....

 

[911paramedic]

Originally posted by: omnez

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon
quite a few older(and current) OEM machines used CS(CableSelect) on their configs..as always YMMV ..good luck

and that would mean.....

You do not use master or slave settings on your peripherals, you set the jumpers to CS, or cable select. It decides who wears the pants on that cable.

 

[omnez]

ahhh thanks, I'll see how all hose ideas will work.

 

[omnez]

nope, did not work

 

[redbeard1]

but now when I try to put the old one it, the boot up says it can not detect an operationg system, that happens unless I remove the IDE from the motherboard.. I did have the pins on the back right. Any suggestions?

When it first boots up, hit the escape key, so you get rid of the Gateway splash screen, and see if it is seeing all the drives properly on boot up. If it is not seeing them at boot, then triple check your cable hook ups and make sure that the red stripe is on pin 1. Are they each on their own channel or are they the same channel? If they are on the same channel, check your master/master with slave/stand alone and slave settings on the hard drive and the cdrom.

In the bios are the drives being selected automatically or have they been chosen, if there is an auto setting, use that.