PC Problem with New DVD Rom Drive!

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  • djrazr
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Oct 2007
    • 2

    PC Problem with New DVD Rom Drive!

    Hi everyone

    I just received my new samsung dvd rom drive today and i tried installing it in my pc

    In my pc i currently have a Toshiba dvdrom (1 slave) and a pioneer dvdrw burner (1 master)

    I turned off the pc, disconnected the power cable and the wider cable away from the toshiba and plugged it into the samsung. I then started the pc, and my pc would not read the samsung. It just read the pioneer as 1 master.

    I then shut off the pc again, and disconnected both wires from the pioneer, and turned on the pc. The pc then was able to read the samsung as 1 master. But then, the pc would just automatically shut off, when i did this after a minute or 2.

    So now i'm confused and i know its something simple. I then wired back the pioneer. Pioneer went to 1 master, and pc could not find samsung. I went into BIOS and my IDE were already set to auto. I didnt make any changes. I can only see the pioneer in bios but not the samsung.

    Am i suppose to change something in BIOS? The pc will not read both drives, when installed together, only the pioneer. When i had just the samsung wired, it would read it as 1 master in bios.

    Please explain to me very detailed, because im not that pc smart and its easy to confuse me

    Thanks
  • NightTran
    King of Digital Video
    King of Digital Video
    • Aug 2005
    • 4224

    #2
    is the pin in the back as the slave?
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    • djrazr
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • Oct 2007
      • 2

      #3
      Originally Posted by NightTran
      is the pin in the back as the slave?
      Can you please be a little more detailed. Which are you talking about for slave? The dvdrw burner or dvdrom?

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      • Chewy
        Super Moderator
        • Nov 2003
        • 18971

        #4
        there are jumpers(small pins with little blocks) on the back of ide drives

        they will be labeled MA SL and CS


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