Asus p5gd2 deluxe mb and windows 7

I am trying to run windows 7 on my p5gd2 deluxe mb. Windows 7 will not recognize my optical drives. I was able to load it via USB and it ran fine but still did not show my optical drives. I have seen others on line say they are running windows 7 with this mb but I can't get my optical drives to show up. I contacted asus and they said the board my not be compatiable with windows 7 because of the age but how are others running it. I am currently running windows vista 32 bit with no problems. Any help would be appreciated, I have the latest bios and all drivers for the optical drives are up to date.

Thanks

IDE or Sata?

Is your rom deck IDE?
Do you have more than one device attached to the primary IDE.

Yes thr roms are IDE but on separate cables
No the primary IDE is on 1 hard drive

Manual

In your manual about page 2/24 the primary IDE is discussed. I would suggest reading it before going any further.

If you can't find your manual here is a link.

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5GD2_Deluxe/#download

Do you think I should run a raid setup? I am going to replace the current IDE hard drive with a serial ata drive. Maybe running a different config might allow win 7 to see them?

One Step at a time

If it was me I would get the current problem with the Optical drives settled and then move on to raid if that is what I wanted.

If I understand what you have done is loaded Win 7 and it boots but the Rom decks are not available in win explorer. No changes of cabling or anything such as that.

If the above statement is correct. What don't you boot and hit the "del" key and enter the bios. On the main screen there should be a listing the IDE devices. If your rom decs are not listed that means the bios did not detect them. If they are not detected,
go to the "advanced" tab and check the onboard devices config. Look for "ITE8212F Controller" and make sure it is set to IDE.

Bios Snips

Forgot to post bios snips.

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I am running vista 32 bit now because I could not get win 7 to work but my hd just failed so I was going to switch to serial ata. I don't see anyone else having problems with cd drives so it must work I just don't know the right config. I tried the suggestion earlier with no success it was set to IDE

If idid the hd via serial ata could I hook the cd drives on the same cable through the primary IDE? Win 7 saw the hard drive just not the DVD drives

More Questions

You are running Vista 32?
Was that the original OS before you started loading stuff?
Did the optical drives work prior to you loading a new OS?

I don't think Win will see the drives until you get the bios to see them.

I am sorry if I was not clear. I will give you the long version. I was running win xp with one hard drive on the primary ide and two dvd dirves on there own ide cables too the other ide slots the motherboard is a asus p5gd2 deluxe. I wanted to up grade to windows 7 so I ran the microsoft win 7 compatiablity software and everything checked out. I went to do a clean install of win 7, the disk would load untill it got to the install portion. At that point neither of the dvd drives would show up and windows 7 had no place to load from. I eventually was able to load win 7 by burning the install disk to a usb stick and loading it that way. Hopeing that after win 7 was loaded it would see the dvd drives. Not the case I tried everything but they will not show up eventhough win 7 was running fine and the hard drive showed up neither dvd drives would display. I searched the internet with no success and also called asus and was told that the mb did not support win 7 because it was too old. But I read of people running it online because they are having trouble with the built in sound card but nothing about dvd drives. Finally I got a copy of vista 32 bit and loaded that instead with no problems and was running it untill my hd died the other day. I also tried to go from vista to win 7 hoping because they are simular that win 7 would see the drives not the case. I thought I would reasearch this topic again since i have to replace the hard drive. I know I could buy a newer mb and solve my problems that way but at that point I might as well build a new computer. (This is a home build by the way) which is something I dont want to do right now. Especially after reading that people are running it on this mb. I hope that clears things up a little and i thank you for your help.

Info

You are not doing bad with the info keep chugging.

The best I can do is suggest some settings to try to get the bios to find the optical disks.
Try the "Onboard IDE Operate Mode" [Compatiable Mode} It is probably now set to[ Enhanced].
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If this doesn't work set it back to the original setting. You will have to make the change and reboot to see if it works.
"Configure Sata" as [Standard IDE] should be correct for the time being.
You could set the "IDE Detect Time Out" to [35] if it's not already there.
Check out the jumper settings on the Optical drives and see how they are set master? Slave? Cable Select? Don't make any changes without making a note of the original position so you can get back to where you began.
Possible combinations are "master" and a "slave". You have two header one is a primary so I would consider that the master. The other would be a slave.
They both could be set to "cable select" Which should work the way I read the manual.
I have never seen a board like this, so there is some guessing going on here.

All Suggestions

If anyone is reading this thread feel free to jump in. I'm about out of ideas except for the routine such as checking cables to see if they are tight etc.

Thank you for your help I was able to finally get windows 7 to see my dvd drives. I hooked the hard drive up serial ata and hooked the dvd drives up on the primary IDE. I put both of them on one cable with cable select on both units and it works great. Thanks again.

Yippee

You did great. Glad you got it fixed.