Problems Installing CD-RW!

[algae]

Hi all,
This should be a no-brainer but here's what's happening:
My system is a PII 400, 128 Mb Ram, Asus P2-99B AGP motherboard, Hercules Prophet Geforce 2 MX video card. I have 2 hard drives.
I just purchased a new Sony CRX145E CD-RW to replace my old 32x CD Rom. I removed the EIDE connector, audio out connector, and power connector from the old drive, pulled out the old cd rom and slid the new one into place.
When I fired up the pc it gave me one long beep followed by 3 short ones, my monitor stayed blank and the hd was chugging away. I eventually powered it down and started it again. This time it wanted to go into safe mode but when I went ahead and tried to get it into safe mode nothing happened. So I powered it down again and this time hit Delete as it was booting, hoping to find some obvious glitch in set-up but I didn't. I exited and resumed trying to reboot to no avail. Upon reading the manual some more I found that I needed to set the jumper to the slave position because I have a second hd in my computer and I also verified this by checking the jumper settings on my old Cd Rom. I set the jumper to make the CD-Rom a slave and tried to fire it up again. Again it wouldn't boot into windows but this time I didn't get the beeps.
I removed the CD-RW and put the old Cd Rom back in and although it booted up, the video settings were totally messed up and I had to reinstall the video drivers in order to get it back to where it was. I don't know if this was relevant to my problem or not.
One thing I can think of that I didn't do is uninstall the old CD Rom from Device Manager before I put in the new one. Other than that I am out of things to try. I would like some knowledgeable advice before I try it again.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any HELP!!
Gary

 

[spamboy]

OK, don't take offense to this and it might sound really dumb, but check whether you have the IDE cable in the right way. I confess to doing the same thing when I installed my first drive upgrade. The result was the same until I flipped the cable over, and poof! It worked perfectly. So maybe that's your problem, too. The red line on one side of the cable should be aligned to pin 1 of the drive (usually the side of the power connector). Unfortuantly, the cable can be installed upside down in many drives. 🙁

Device Manager shouldn't have been the problem... You don't need to remove things like CD drives because they don't have specific drivers, they just use generic Windows drivers...

 

[Bignate603]

hmmm, i've seen that prob with floppies alot, if you jam the thing in upside down. I guess you could do it with ide drives too.

 

[algae]

Tried that guys and it doesn't seem to be the problem. Now guess what....it won't boot with my old cd rom in it either! (I'm using my laptop for this message)
???
Gary

 

[Tominator]

It has got to be a loose connection! I don't think it can be anything else. BTW, removing the origional CDrom should have not caused the prob.

 

[spamboy]

yeah, check the connection between the cable and the motherboard. you could have pulled it a little loose when you removed the orginal CDROM.

 

[algae]

Looks like you were right guys..it was the connection on the motherboard. I was working in a confined space and it is hard to check all of that. It's still messing with my video card though..any reason why? Should I uninstall and reinstall the video card you think?

 

[algae]

Reinstalled the video drivers and all's well. Wonder why it did that?

 

[Tsaico]

This also will sound bad too, but make sure that the drive is set correctly, slave/master/single/cableselect. If you get two trying for the same position, you can run into trouble. As far as not being able to go back to the old setup, dunno...