cd drive (i <3 vista)

[insidious]

ok system specs:

Giga: EX38-DS5
Crucial: 2x 2G Ballistix
Inno3d: 8800GTX OC
Creative: Audigy 4
Netgear: WG311
INtel: Q9450
Western Digital: 36 & 150 Raptors

Miscelaneouse new and used CD roms

At boot i can see the CDRom, i can install windows and read from the cd drive

in windows i cant see the cddrive at all, not so much as a yellow flag in device drivers

google talks about changing some limits in the registry but i couldnt make much sense of it

any ideas?

beers on offer to anyone who comes up with the fix

[Bad Crispy]

shouldnt have to change anything in teh reg - sata or ide drive??

If its sata which port is it in, have you tried swapping it around.
Have you missed anything in the bios again - think about when you couldnt use your usb keyboard.....

[ZeReaper]

In my experience (but only under XP, I haven't used vista) when I had a working bootable drive in BIOS but windows wouldn't show it at all, I had to open up disk management and set the drive as active before windows would even use it. Only happened once and never had a problem with it since, see if your disk management recognises that there is a drive there and what the status of it is.

In XP you open up administrator tools in control panel then open computer management, disk management will be down the left hand side.

If that works how about you just post your lips through the mail so you can kiss my ass

[Mungus]

the adminstrative tools -> computer management -> disk management feature is the same in vista.

[insidious]

ide i think, can you get a sata cddrive? that my solve my problem

is something that should be in the bios? the cd drive works fine except in windows, or are you just trying to be a smart ass :P

tried the disk manager thing but the cd drive isnt in there to activate, so you are just going to hhave to keep dreaming about me kissing your ass Reaps

any other ideas are welcome

[paladin]

yes you can get sata optical drives. there's a possibility your IDE controller needs drivers installed before window will recognise that it, and any drives attached to it exist.

[Wrathlon]

Im with Pala, I had the same issue with mine on my PATA controller. The windows driver installed fine and said all was good but it didnt show either drive until I installed the correct PATA Controller driver.

[Harbinger]

not sure about the x38 board, but the x48 board version uses a jmicro controller for the single pata port.

which has the interesting feature of appearing as a scsi device.

If it's the same, that's probalby what is behind the issue

[Bad Crispy]

insidious ide i think, can you get a sata cddrive? that my solve my problem is something that should be in the bios? the cd drive works fine except in windows, or are you just trying to be a smart ass :P tried the disk manager thing but the cd drive isnt in there to activate, so you are just going to hhave to keep dreaming about me kissing your ass Reaps any other ideas are welcome

doood!!!!!!! get with the now - you can get sata happiness- i should drive down there and slap you into next week or while your wife is up here slap her and get her to pass on the message see attached pic -

you shouldnt have to activate your dvd drive in vista, xp or god so help us win98, if it works itll be in there, if not itll have a 'warning will robinson' triangle next to it, or be non existent ( if so see above paragraph)

If under device manager you do a scan for new hardware and nothing turns up, your old dodgy and outdated IDE/Pata dvd drive may be cactus - spend the $24 - $50 and buy a new SATA one ( god knows youve spent more than that recently trying to get your pc setup working)

BTW - i love you man just left my sisters wedding and unlike wrath can type in engerish and spell check works well too

[insidious]

BC.... if you say it should just be there one more time ima gonna come up there and slap you

i know it should be there but it isnt