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SATA drivers and CD-ROMS

M

Marque

Junior Member
Building a new PC and purchased a SATA hard drive and a CD-ROM. But the motherboard is not seeing the CDROM. I have it hooked up to IDE1 as a master. The MB sees the HD on SATA1 though.

Any suggestions?

Another good side note... when booting the computer it will freeze up right away if the cdrom is connected the to IDE slot but once its removed it will boot as normal allowing me to go the BIOS. l've changed the boot sequence into a hundred combinations and get the same result once the cdrom is connected.

Bad cdrom?
 
Sounds like you have it jumpered wrong or it's a bad drive. Do you have another cdrom that you could test out?
 
Dont have another cdrom but soon will.

Guess my question is when having sololy a SATA hard drive... he proper way to setup the cdrom is as a master in IDE1?
 
It really shouldn't matter, but I prefer to jumper CD-Roms as Slaves not Masters. Some mobos are a bit fussy about that.

Make sure you also connect it to the correct connector. On an ATA133 ribbon you MUST connect the blue connector to the mobo, the black to the master and the gray to the slave.

Another issue is that some modern mobos prefer you use CS (cable select). Jumper the CD-Rom as CS and connect it to the gray (middle) connector on the ribbon.

Really sounds like a bad CD-Rom drive though.

Hope this helps...
 
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