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Do you have Itunes? Apparently the program without your permission will modify your cdrom drive location. Don't ask me why...but that's what happened to me. Try going to start > my computer...right click and go to properties > click on the hardware tab and see where your cdrom is located presently. Hope this helps...good luck!
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power off your computer, pull out both devices attached to the IDE ribbon cable taking note of witch device is attached to the "middle" and "end" of the ribbon.
The device plugged in to the middle of the cable should have it's jumper set to secondary/slave or cable select. the drive at the end should be jumpered primary or cable select.
Rarely do you have to set a hard drive to cable select, but I have seen it where CD/DVD drives require it no matter which end or middle of the ribbon they are on.
Good luck.
The device plugged in to the middle of the cable should have it's jumper set to secondary/slave or cable select. the drive at the end should be jumpered primary or cable select.
Rarely do you have to set a hard drive to cable select, but I have seen it where CD/DVD drives require it no matter which end or middle of the ribbon they are on.
Good luck.
And the cdrom is attached to a ribbon with only one connection on it.
and the cdrom has the jumpers set to master, also tried slave, also tried taking the jumper out completely.
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Do you have Itunes? Apparently the program without your permission will modify your cdrom drive location. Don't ask me why...but that's what happened to me. Try going to start > my computer...right click and go to properties > click on the hardware tab and see where your cdrom is located presently. Hope this helps...good luck!
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Just wondering have you tried going into device manager and just removing the drive in windows all together and reboot it and have it reinstall and see if then it will show up?
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Another thing to check would be your CD-ROM's jumper settings; some BIOS are picky when it comes to master/slave/cableselect settings.
Also try to make sure your CD-ROM is on the secondary IDE cable; primary IDE sometimes screws up the detection. If you only have 1 IDE connector put the CD-ROM at the end of the cable.
+1 on BIOS update and newer CD/DVD/BD drives.
Also try to make sure your CD-ROM is on the secondary IDE cable; primary IDE sometimes screws up the detection. If you only have 1 IDE connector put the CD-ROM at the end of the cable.
+1 on BIOS update and newer CD/DVD/BD drives.
If your cdrom is in the wrong location under your computer management...first check in device manager and see where your cdrom is located whether K,O,L...whatever. Then go to start > control panel > performance and maintenance > administrative tools > computer management....then on the left hand side, click disk management and then you will see your cdrom drive letter...if it's wrong all you have to do is right click to change drive letter and paths....good luck! By the way...are you running xp or vista?
have you tried switching to mac greg? It solves everything from what I hear. I kicked it with Jon1320 today. He is ****ed up from that surgery, going 1/14 on COD4 haha. Hit us up so we can get you that mac and kick it.
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