Lost Optical Drives

[musicfret]

Hello Everybody, Sorry I Haven't Wrote In Awhile. I've Come Across A Very Serious Problem That I Need Help With. Briefly, I'm Running An Asus Motherboard, 3.0 Pentium Single Core, 3 Gigs Of Kingston Ram, Audigy 7.1 Sound Card, Ati 850x Video Card, Sony Dvd Burner, Sony Rom, Sony Floppy And Ahp Dvd External Copier Hooked Up By Usb. First Of All I Had Swapped The Video Cards Taking Out An Ati 1650 Pro And Putting In The 850x Card. I Dumped All The Drivers And Software On Both Computers First, Did The Swap And Reinstalled All Software. Both Systems Ran Perfect. Turned Them Off And Went On My Business. About 2 Weeks Later I Fired Up Both Systems And The Other System Now With The Ati 1650 Pro Works Perfectly, This System Now With The Ati 850x Came On And Suddenly Could Not See Any Optical Drives. The Bios Sees Them, But My Computer Doesn't!!!!! I've Updated Drivers, Uninstalled And Reinstalled Drivers, Gone Into Safe Mode.....no Change. The Hp Dvd Writer That Is Hooked Up To The Usb Can't Be Seen Either!!!!??? I Need Help Folks!!!!?????

 

[Tmagic650]

Hey Larry,
did you get this resolved?

 

[musicfret]

Hello Again, Thanks For The Interest. I Haven't Figured It Out!! I'm Starting To Lose My Mind Over This. I'm Sure It Will End Up To Be Something Stupid I'm Sure.

 

[Tmagic650]

Try resetting the BIOS... Just a thought

 

[iss]

What kind of Hard drive do you use? IDE or SATA? and when you swapped video cards did you make any changes in the bios?

 

[musicfret]

Hey Everybody, I'm Back With Still The Same Problem. I Already Reset The Bios And Checked All The Settings For The Video Card, No Change!! I'm Going On Vacation For A Week, And Will Clear My Head. I Hope All Of You Give This Problem Some Thought And Let Me Know Next Week. I'm At My Witts End With This And I'm Thinking Of Taking It Apart And Rebuilding It Again. Any And All Input Is Very Welcome......talk To You All In A Week!!!!!!

 

[CCT]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/314060

then, if still not working:

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/aspisetup.cfm

 

[Tmagic650]

Have a great vacation musicfret... I'm leaning toward telling you to swap the motherboard if CCT's links don't help. Of course, I am sure they will. Thanks CCT!

 

[musicfret]

Hey Everybody, Sorry I Haven't Answered Earlier Been Very Busy. I Want To Thank Cct Tons!!! Your Fist Link Worked Perfectly! Great Job And Many Thanks Again. The System Is Up Any Running Like New. I Don't Quite Know What The Problem Was, But It's Resolved!!!!