Urza9814 Posted May 31, 2005 Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 (edited) Ok...I've had this problem for a while, but I just kinda assumed/hoped that my secondary drive was screwy. Well, it appears it wasn't. I got brand new DVD drives (drive and burner actually) for my birthday today, and if I have 'em both plugged in...not even the BIOS detects 'em. Windoze will detect that there's SOMETHING there, but every time I go to the 'add hardware wizard' it finds something new, usually named something like 'A @' or 'Co E' or some other weird thing like that, and it only detects one, and if I try to use it, it either says there's no disk or the drive is corrupted. So...is my mobo screwed? Well...screwed more than I already knew.... Edited June 4, 2005 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted May 31, 2005 Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 Maybe. But, I place these devices on seperate channels and I get that in the bios when the master/slave jumper is not set correctly. So, check that out. Make sure the ribbon connector is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 31, 2005 Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 If you cannot place them in separate channels, use an old fourty-wire ribbon cable, and not an eighty-wire one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 (edited) ...crap...I need to be more careful...and a new mobo. It appears that whatever was left of that IDE channel vanished in a brilliant blue spark... ...it was pretty though... :P Both the drives still work...I managed to boot morphix off both on my 5 year old compaq...the BIOS in that detected 'em fine...so I'm pretty sure my mobo was at fault...so I've learned from this several things: 1) wait until it is FULLY shut down before even TOUCHING the power cord (I was getting it close before it had fully shut down because i didn't wanna waste time...and it got a bit too close) 2) Don't buy a cheap mobo (not all of the problems with it were my fault actually...just most :P) 3) If you go to the company's website, and words are overlapping, pages don't exist, and their only form of tech support is a forum with the RMA section locked...that's not a good sign. 4) big blue sparks may be pretty, but they aren't helpful :P So...now I need a new mobo...are MSI and ASUS any good? Here's what I'm looking at right now: http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_techspe...masterid=814637 (and I hope to order ASAP...hopefully by the end of the day) Edited May 31, 2005 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted May 31, 2005 Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 An inexpensive board that does well is ASRock. I have had good performance with their all-in-one boards. Asus is a good board, but tends to be over priced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 Asus is a good board, but tends to be over priced. Too late :P I've realized that for 6 PCI slots, AGP, on-board audio and ethernet and all the other crap I want, it should cost more than my CD drive. It's more important. Plus I got a 3 year warranty...which I need...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted June 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 I got my new mobo today...and it's all working great...after a lot of trouble with inserting the CPU fan backwards...lol... I cut my finger too at some point apparently...I don't know when, but there's a new cut there, so I'm assuming it's from installing the mobo...but...it's worth it :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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