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Optical Media Drives Not Reading

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Beefey123

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Hi All--

I've been pulling my hair out for a while trying to figure out why my optical drives are not reading. My optical drive was making some strange noises on startup so I thought it bit the dust. I purchased another at Microcenter.

Background and What I've Done So Far:
Hooked up both drives
Both recognized in BIOS
Tried both AHCI and IDE Modes
Cables confirm to be good to go
Running on different power supply cables legs
One cable/leg is daisy chained to a SSD that is functioning flawlessly.
Shows up in 'My Computer'
No read on boot
No read in Windows 10
No '!' in device manager at all
No updates when try to update device drivers for the drives

I would be inclined to think it's a Win10 issue however that doesn't explain not reading boot disc's on startup. Any ideas would be helpful.

Can a power supply go 'half bad' where it doesn't supply enough current for the optical drive to spool up? The door opens and closes just fine.

System
i5-2500k currently running stock
ASROCK Z68 Fratality Motherboard
8GB Ram -- GSKILL Sniper 1866
Zotac 1080 GTX VCARD
128GB Crucial SSD
500GB WD Black
ASUS Optical SATA
LG Optical SATA
760W Corsair AX-series
Windows 10
 
Did they work at one point?
If you put bootable media in the drive and tell the computer to boot from it before the ssd, will it do so?
What does Windows say when you put media into the drive and double-click it?
 
Yes the original ASUS drive worked for years. I'm not positive if it worked after Windows 10 install however it seems independent of that due to it not booting from the BIOS either.

It will not boot from the DVD/CD optical media.

Windows just thinks there is no disc in there. First time it opens the tray second time just 'thinks'.

Thanks!
Beefey
 
Yes I have tried different SATA cables. Since I'm running two drives I, by definition, am running two SATA cables.

I just swapped to power supply. No help.
 
Could it be the disk itself? Are you trying to read a cd-r/DVD-r or a commercially pressed disk? Have you tried other discs such as a music cd?
 
On your board, the Asmedia SATA3 controller is not enabled during bios, so it's usually required to plug any optical drives you want to boot to, into the black intel SATA2 ports.

Edit: Also found this...
In the UEFI BIOS:
Go to - Advanced, then Storage Configuration,
-"Asmedia SATA3 Mode" should be IDE
-Change "Asmedia SATA3 Bootable" to YES
 
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Would the SATA3 controller not enabled during BIOS only be a boot issue?

I cannot read media in Win10 out of the optical drives either.

I will double check which ports the optical drives are plugged into.

After your 'edit' did you find that SATA3 devices would indeed be bootable? I believe my DVD-rom drive is AHCI capable.

Thank you for the input! I appreciate it.
 
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