BorisandBailey
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Hi, everyone.
Here's the short of it: This is a new build. On the first screen of the BIOS that lists the IDE and SATA drives, I have two IDE DVD/CD ROM drives that are not listed. Yet, one of them will list in the Boot Order.
More: neither Lite-on burner would work, but when I placed a Sony drive in from another computer, programs appeared and loaded; but it is still not listed on the first screen; it is in the Boot Order.
Gets messier: Aren't the IDE drives supposed to appear on the first screen? When the two drives are in there and they are first and second in boot order, I get a dashed line on the screen after boot-up (making the HD first solves that though that's not my preferred order). I wondered if the IDE header could be faulty, but then, the programs are loading from the Sony drive. Or maybe something in the BIOS I'm missing? Or maybe Lite-on burners just suck and need replacement. One of them does not appear anywhere in the BIOS on the new build or on my other computer. The other Lite-on will work on my other computer, but not on the new build.
Here are the components:
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor
Asus PQ5 circuit board
Ultra Heatsink and CPU Fan
Corsair DDR2 240-pin Memory
Thermaltake 430 Power Supply
Evga Nividia 9000s Video Card
Seagate Barracuda 750GB Hard Drive
Two Lite On CD/DVD Burners
Windows XP Pro 64-bit
Thanks much!
Here's the short of it: This is a new build. On the first screen of the BIOS that lists the IDE and SATA drives, I have two IDE DVD/CD ROM drives that are not listed. Yet, one of them will list in the Boot Order.
More: neither Lite-on burner would work, but when I placed a Sony drive in from another computer, programs appeared and loaded; but it is still not listed on the first screen; it is in the Boot Order.
Gets messier: Aren't the IDE drives supposed to appear on the first screen? When the two drives are in there and they are first and second in boot order, I get a dashed line on the screen after boot-up (making the HD first solves that though that's not my preferred order). I wondered if the IDE header could be faulty, but then, the programs are loading from the Sony drive. Or maybe something in the BIOS I'm missing? Or maybe Lite-on burners just suck and need replacement. One of them does not appear anywhere in the BIOS on the new build or on my other computer. The other Lite-on will work on my other computer, but not on the new build.
Here are the components:
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor
Asus PQ5 circuit board
Ultra Heatsink and CPU Fan
Corsair DDR2 240-pin Memory
Thermaltake 430 Power Supply
Evga Nividia 9000s Video Card
Seagate Barracuda 750GB Hard Drive
Two Lite On CD/DVD Burners
Windows XP Pro 64-bit
Thanks much!