DVD Drive Installation

[ThatGuy]

Hi,

I bought a LG 22x Internal LScribe DVD+/-RW Drive but I'm having trouble connecting it.

I have a nForce 790i Ultra SLI board and assumed that I could connect it using the IDE-ATA 133 HDD cable that came with it. But, although I have it connected up, it isn't recognised by the computer.

Is there some other connector, or perhaps something I've missed?


The reason I got this is because my other DVD drive stopped reading DVDs so until I've got it working I'm going to be bored out of my mind.



Thanks

[staffsMike]

The power connector?

[ThatGuy]

The power is already connected.

[Zero 101]

Master, slave, cable select jumper correct position? check old drive.
Reconnect old drive and check it's recognised.
Not changed bios settings?

[matty-hodgson]

my PC did this.. swapped out a SATA DVD drive for an IDE drive, and the only way i could fix it was by re-installing Windows Vista..
it's recognised by the BIOS yeah?
and comes up with an installation thing in Windows?
but it won't let you actually use the drive?

[ThatGuy]

Thanks for your help everyone.

The IDE port on the Motherboard was disabled in the BIOS.

I'm not normally a very technical computer guy so it didn't automatically spring to mind.