Motherboard compatibility?

[kongs]

Ok I just got a Pioneer A09XL DVD/CD burner for my computer for birthday. The problem I am having is after I mounted it in my computer...the drive doesn't appear when I open "My Computer".

I have the Power Cable and IDE Interface cable connected so all I can think of is that maybe it isn't compatible with my motherboard? I have an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard.

Can anyone help me out with this problem?

 

[Silversierra]

How is the drive connected? Is it on it's own drive channel? Is it properly set to master or slave?

 

[kongs]

Yea it is in its own drive channel. I dont know if it is set up as a master or slave.
How do I that? (This is my first computer that I have put together)
Also Which should I put as the master and which as the slave? Because I have a regular CD-ROM drive also.

 

[Silversierra]

There are jumpers on the drive back. It usually has master, slave, and cable select. The drive at the end of the cable is master, the middle of the cable is slave. If you set it to cable select, it automatically picks one(master or slave) based on where it's connected. I don't know if it matters which is which. Many systems seem to have the burner below the cd rom(thus making the burner the middle or slave drive).

If you set it to slave, and the cd rom to master, and put the dvd rw in the middle, and the cd at the end, and it doesn't work, then reverse them(jumpers and cable position). If it still doesn't work you could put them both to Cable select, or try a new ide cable.

 

[kongs]

Ok thanks that helps out a lot. Lastly, how do I set it to "cable select"?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Silversierra]

For cable select, the drives can be either way on the cable, just make sure they both are set to cable select. You need a newer style cable for cs to work(you should have a capable one), and some people say cs isn't as good as setting a master and slave, but dell sets their computers to cs all the time.

 

[Silversierra]

Sorry, almost forgot, welcome to anandtech!

 

[kongs]

Thanks, just starting browsing these forums a few days ago. Everyone seems really nice and willing to help

 

[IntegraGSR]

if you have the drive on its own ide cable, it shouldn't matter if its set to master or slave or cable select.. does your bios detect the drive? if not, set the channel you have it hooked up to auto-detect, if it isn't already.

 

[kongs]

Yeah maybe I'll do that integra cause my old drive is pretty old and slow to begin with.

 

[Silversierra]

Did you get it to work?