My cd drive won't work

[paperroll]

Today, I installed a new mobo and ram. I'm sure I connected everything right because the power turns on, but the cd drive doesn't light up and its making me annoyed. I hooked it up to the IDE. Oh, if you connect both your cd drive and Hard drive to one IDE does it slow performance?

 

[Kernel32]

Did you jumper the cd rom as slave? There can be instances where having them both on the same cable can cause a slight performance hit. As long as you have the second ide channel open, separate them.

 

[Valkerie]

Stronger motherboards will have no problems with your configurations of a CD-ROM drive with an HD using the same IDE channel and ribbon, so long you have the correct jumper settings enabled on the back of the drives.

The worse you could possibly expect is a defective optical drive or ribbon.

Check your BIOS settings to see if the drive is even present. That way you will be able to notice if the mobo is recognizing the optical drive or drives.

I recommend you trying to check for loose cables and jumper settings first.

Slave/master settings usually.

If you seriously need to, check the manufacturer's website for compatibility issues and the like.

 

[kristof007]

I'd check the bios as well before anything. When your computer boots (well at least mine) it shows the CD, DVD and Hard Drives installed. Good luck! I had one drive just fail on me completely and it'd freeze up my computer. When I finally got a DVD burner and I took it out my computer became much more stable ... but that's just my story and it sounds like you used your drive before so .. good luck!

 

[Fern]

Oh, if you connect both your cd drive and Hard drive to one IDE does it slow performance?

I like to keep 'em on seperate IDE channels, it'll be faster when moving data from one to the other.

Fern