Installing SATA DVD/RW with Asus Rampage 2 gene

[dannyboy2005]

My old DVD/RW was connected by IDE cable but this died a few weeks back.

I've checked my motherboard to see if it will accept SATA drives, to which it says it does.

I have bought a new DVD/RW and its connected via a SATA cable. I have plugged the SATA cable into the SATA port on the M'Board and connected it to the DVD/RW. I was assuming it would be 'Plug and Play' like the IDE cable but it's not showing in my computer.

What do I need to do to get it working? I thought I'd ask you guys first encase I downloaded drivers that I don't need.

Many Thanks
Dan

 

[DeaconFrost]

Do you have the power cable plugged into the drive as well? If the computer is powered on, can you push the button to open the tray? If not, then it would definitely be a power issue. It may seem like a simple step, but I'm only asking because you didn't mention it...only the SATA data cable.

 

[dannyboy2005]

Oh yeah, it does have a power cable connected. I should had mentioned it

 

[Pauly]

You should access bios on power up to see if the drive in question is shown
If it is not there then your machine is not recognising it and windows will not see it
If it is there then please post a shot of your disk management window

Start>type diskmgmt.msc>enter

 

[stormy13]

Is it connected to the single black SATA port on the motherboard, or in the blue group of six? If it is the black one either check the bios and make sure the JMicron controller is enabled, or connect it to a spare port on the blue ones.

 

[dannyboy2005]

Thank you guys .

I'm going to do a print screen and then check the BIOS.

I did manage to put a blank CD in there last night and it gave me the option to 'Burn a new disk' and I did this is WMP.

I dragged a album I wanted to be burnt and fired away. It made the usual running noises and motorised sounds and then 5 minutes later, ejected the CD. I put the CD into my CD player and it was just 1 track (Should had been at least 13) and it didn't have any music on but it had the clock showing how far you are into the song.

Thank You!

 

[dannyboy2005]

Pauly, It shows it's connected.

stormy13 - Its connect to the group of 6 Blue SATA ports (Bottom right, under the iROG Chip)

 

[Pauly]

As long as its coming up in windows then it should be working fine im guessing your cd issue is a software/user problem, if you need any more help let us know

 

[dannyboy2005]

As long as its coming up in windows then it should be working fine im guessing your cd issue is a software/user problem, if you need any more help let us know

I think you've spoke to soon.

I have just visited the BIOS and it shows it in there. I then came to the desktop and went to 'My Computer' and it wasn't showing the drive.

I've inserted the Asus Rampage M/b CDROM to see if there is a SATA driver I should install and I put it into the new CD drive and it didn't play it automatically like it should. It doesn't even show in 'My Computer'

 

[Pauly]

Check disk management again see if its still showing
Do you have two optical drives?
Intermitent behaviour like this is normally caused by a bad connection or a faulty drive, i would unplug both ends of sata cable and reconnect, do the drive drawer still open and shut when device is not listed?

 

[dannyboy2005]

Thanks to all those that have helped by none of you were correct

After finding out that it showed in the Bios and sometimes in My Computer, I started to wonder if there was a loose cable/ dust in the system.

I took my computer apart and there wasn't much dust (cleaned out every other month). I progressed to find the 'Sata' cable. I took it out (expecting a broken wire or something) and I was surprised to see that I installed a DMI cable instead (Desktop Management Interface).

Its clear that some information was getting transferred between the hardware and PC but not all of it. I now have bought a REAL SATA cable and works a treat now.

The DMI cable on the left. At a glance it looks exactly the same as a Sata cable

The DMI cable is on the left. You can see that the pin structure is completely different from the SATA cable. Although there is the same amount of pins, I will assume that they weren't quite the right size to carry the information on the spacing was slightly different to the SATA one.

Lesson to be learnt.. Carefully check your cables if installing new hardware.

 

[Pauly]

Thanks to all those that have helped by none of you were correct

Hey come on i was nearly right lol

Still amazes me how many issues we come across that turn out to be such a simple fix

Glad to hear you got it sorted mate

 

[dannyboy2005]

Thanks to all those that have helped by none of you were correct

Hey come on i was nearly right lol

Still amazes me how many issues we come across that turn out to be such a simple fix

Glad to hear you got it sorted mate

Not quite there

I recorded a CD from WMP last night and it was completed within 5 minutes. I went to play this in my cars stereo and only to find its 1 long track but without any music on it.

I have had 2 thoughts.

1) CD player in the car doesn't accept CD-R
2) WMP isn't recording properly, I'll need to use another program, can anyone suggest one?

Cheers
Dan

 

[Pauly]

Try burn aware free it will burn cd audio, mp3, disc images etc and its free obviously
http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html

 

[stormy13]

Another good burning app (go for the version without OpenCandy),

CDBurnerXP: Downloads

 

[dannyboy2005]

Try burn aware free it will burn cd audio, mp3, disc images etc and its free obviously
BurnAware Free - Free Burning Software for Windows

I used this and it works wonderfully. I don't suppose you know of any CD Shrinker's (and DVD Shrinker's)?

DvdShrink doesn't seem to work on my system and makes the system freeze.

Thanks

 

[Pauly]

There's a list of some here, don't personally use one so can't give any recommendations
DVD ripper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia