!!HELP!! SAMSUNG SATA Optical Drive

[icequake2000]

please could someone tell me how to get my bios on a striker extreme motherboard to recognize a sata optical drive without windows being installed.

many thanks

[BUFF]

can you set the SATA controller to IDE emulation mode (iirc Asus come preset to AHCI)?

[icequake2000]

thanks for the help but where would that be in the bios

[Thorsson]

It shouldn't have any problem recognising the drive, Windows or no Windows. Have you checked the cables are all correctly and firmly connected? Try different cables (SATA and power). Try connecting to a different SATA port. Try the drive in another PC.

[ring.of.steel]

There may be an option in the bios, saying 'cdrom on sata' or something like that, they have all just worked fine in the past for me.