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Optical Drives disapeared

Akhen

Akhen

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So here is the deal I was playing quake 4 and suddenly the game froze so i was forced to do
a cold boot (at least thats what I understand its called) and upon start up both my optical drives where missing so i rebooted and launched the bios and restart and got my drives back. (note hte bios is updated to its newest version.
But next restart I was confronted with the same problem, so I redid my step but only this time the did not come back. I checked the settings for slave and master and all where set to auto. So then I opened my case and checked the wiring but everything was fine, and also both the drives show sign of activity when starting up.
Anyways I tried diffrent combinations of the pins on the drives and switch them, also tried cable select and booting each of them alone but still with no end result.
Finally I got a new rounded IDE cable and tried that but once again nothing worked.

I'm really lost, anybody have any ideas?

PS both drives are obviously internal, one is a brand new lite-on DVD/CDrw
and the other is a few month old I omega dvd burner.
 
I tried that first option of deleting registry keys but the reg_multi_sz did not have any upperfilters on my compter, either way
I deleted both lower filters and restart yet nothing, so i just reset it back to how it was thanks to the saved registry.
Is it because I have no type upperfilters the reason to my problem?

I also heard someone say that my IDE controler had died on me, and that I should be able to plug it in another controler on the board.
Problem is im not sure if there are any?
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=603
heres my board I usually plug it in the blue socket, and according to the description I have more than one
would the other sockets be the 2 yellow ones located on the bottom right in the image?
 
one i did find once was 2 optical drives 1 set to master 1 set to cable select, they worked for months then one day gone.

i changed the cable select one to slave and they have been back ever since.

apart from that i am outta ideas
 
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