Putting a new Box togeather having trouble installing Mandrake machine is setup to boot from CD drive (DVD rom CD-RW combo)
trouble is system cannot find the drive any suggestions?
Board is a Jetway V4MDM/V4MDMP
RAM 512 Mb
HDa 120G. samsung
trying to install Mdk-10
Aron; Your post says that the system is not detecting the CD Drive? Do you mean that the CD drive isn't found by the motherboard or by the O/S?
I just want to be sure I understood you correctly.
If the drive isn't being detected by the motherboard, try the following;
1) Find the jumper on the motherboard to reset the CMOS and follow Jetway's instructions on resetting it. Make sure that AC power and the onboard battery are both removed when you do.
2) Make sure that you're using an 80 pin cable on the DVD drive.
3) Make sure that you have correctly set the Master/Slave jumpers on any other drives as well as the DVD drive.
4) Make sure that you connected power from your PSU to the DVD drive.
5) Try switching IDE cables with other ones that you know are in good shape.
6) Disconnect all other drives on the system, and try connecting only the DVD drive to both the Primary and Secondary IDE interfaces on the motherboard.
7) If none of this works, try any other Optical drive (CD, CDRW, etc.) on this system board, in case the interfaces or BIOS are defective.
8) Try connecting the DVD drive to another system temporarily to see if it's detected or not - paying attention to Master/Slave jumpers on this other PC as well. If necessary, disconnect all other drives from this system while testing the DVD drive, just to make sure that you don't have a conflict. Remember that the system doesn't need to boot into the OS to see if the drive is detected or not.
9) Replace the motherboard if no other drives or IDE cables do the trick, and re-run these tests.
HTH
Lanman
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