Dear All
I put together this computer last week (AMD Athlon XP 2000+, Windows XP Home Edition SP1) with a single CD-RW drive. The drive was on its own on the secondary IDE channel on my Abit KV7 mobo. I Recently put in a DVD drive and I had to swap the IDE channels over because the cable wouldn't reach to the DVD player!! So I now have my two HDD on the Secondary IDE channel and my CD-RW (slave) and DVD player (master) on the primary IDE channel.
When the computer is powered up and all running I open My Computer and my CD-RW isn't there! I checked in Windows Media Player and it's not there either.
BUT when I have a look in the deivce manager and the Computer Managment program it's there sitting quite happily!
If i put in a music CD it doesn't start automatically but the drive visually and aurally seems to work fine!
any ideas??
Regards
James
I put together this computer last week (AMD Athlon XP 2000+, Windows XP Home Edition SP1) with a single CD-RW drive. The drive was on its own on the secondary IDE channel on my Abit KV7 mobo. I Recently put in a DVD drive and I had to swap the IDE channels over because the cable wouldn't reach to the DVD player!! So I now have my two HDD on the Secondary IDE channel and my CD-RW (slave) and DVD player (master) on the primary IDE channel.
When the computer is powered up and all running I open My Computer and my CD-RW isn't there! I checked in Windows Media Player and it's not there either.
BUT when I have a look in the deivce manager and the Computer Managment program it's there sitting quite happily!
If i put in a music CD it doesn't start automatically but the drive visually and aurally seems to work fine!
any ideas??
Regards
James