Recently I connected my HD into other PC then I connected it back on my PC but now I'm having a hard time to make my DVD drive work, I never had problems before and it was working fine. This is what happens: When I turn on the PC, the DVD led flashes and everything, I can open and close the tray without problems. The DVD drive is showed in the bios too. But as soon as Windows XP starts loading the DVD drive wont work, with this I mean it wont even open the tray. Once Windows has started its the same... It looks like the drive is detected because under device manager it shows this: "DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom device", and my other CD drive is listed too. But when I try to access it, I get a "Please insert a disk into drive E:" eventho I already have a disc there. If I try to eject it using windows nothing happens. This is how I have my connections: (got primary and secundary IDE enabled in bios) Primary IDE: Master is my HD Primary IDE: Slave is CD-ROM Drive Secundary IDE: Master is DVD drive (the one with problems) Secundary IDE: Slave = nothing Already tried swapping the DVD-Drive to primary IDE as slave but it happens exactly the same. Im so confused, why would it work before windows starts to load, but wont work after?? What do you recommend me to do? Im out of ideas, do you think its the drive jumpers? Or something related to Windows? should I reinstall?
when you connected your HDD to the other system did you boot your HDD is there any yellow triangles with exclamation marks on them in device manager, and are there any error messages in event viewer BTW: also try setting the drive to C/S (cable select) and try setting the drive to slave on the secondary channel
First of all, thanks for your help donkey42! Yup, I did. No yellow triangles with exclamation marks, device manager wont even detect my DVD drive, the SCSI drive listed was a virtual drive I had. Tried this, but didnt work I think I found what the problem is, I was checking dvd jumper when I realized my DVD drive is missing 1 pin (pin #21, *picture below). After reinstalling Windows, device manager detects everything but my DVD drive, so I decided to leave the current configuration (IDE cables, jumpers, bios settings, etc) and swap the DVD drive for an old CD drive that I have, I kept everything the SAME, guess what? it worked fine, device manager detected my old CD drive with no problems. What I found strange is, when I formatted and reinstalled windows I made it using the DVD drive that has 1 pin missing! and everything went Ok until windows started, then the DVD drive stopped working again. Remember I told you it worked just fine until windows started... Its just like when windows starts you cut the power off the DVD drive, it wont open, flash or anything. My question is, ¿Can 1 pin cause that Windows isnt able to detect or use the drive, but that my bios is still able to detect and use the drive (before windows starts)?
2 questions, how good are you with a soldering iron ? and do you want to fix this drive of replace it ?, assuming you wish to fix the drive, please continue unless all pins are connected, anything is possible, you could try this [ot]if your not comfortable with your soldering skills then just practice first on an old circuit board[/ot]BTW: youll soon get the hang of it[ot]or replace the drive[/ot]
Im gonna try to open the case and push the pin back, it seems to me like its inserted rather than broken, I'll keep you informed if it worked.
