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I had a Kenwood 72X cd-rom drive that apparently died (no light, door wouldn't open, etc) SO I replaced it with a DVD player as it was old anyway. I also have a Plexwriter burner, that works.
Before, the Kenwood drive wasn't seen anymore in Win2000 and also not seen in the bios either (MIA).
The new DVD player IS seen, detected by the bios BUT still not in Windows. I havent yet changed its jumpers (unmarked but probably the same as the old, marked Kenwood drive) and the bios sees it as a slave drive (same ribbon cable that goes to the burner, that drive jumped as master). I'd think that that's OK?

The unit comes with no install software for the drive itself as it's suppose to be detected totally by Windows yet it's not.

In "hardware manager", it's simply not shown. Not shown in "my computer". Tryed seeing if windows could be forced to detect it (control panel, hardware detection) yet no, can't find it.
The DVD drives light comes on with a disc installed, the door opens/closes but might anyone have any other ideas why Windows doesn't see it?

i'd play with the jumper settings...if the one you replaced was pretty old the new models may have different jumper configs. if that doesn't do it...remove the burner and see if you can get it to work as a single drive.

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I swapped the jumpers so that the new DVD drive is now master (was slave by default) and then the burner isn't seen at all (both bios and Windows). I've switched the burners jumper from master to slave too, still won't work (not at all detected) and the PC was booting slower than usual, locking up too with both plugged in together at the same time.
The PC, DVD drive works fine with the burner unplugged (ribbon) but it seems as though the two won't work together.
I'm thinking that all this might be related to my last problems in getting a USB 2.0 card to work in a slot (took several card swaps, thread below:
http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... post172423)

Maybe there's just too much "stuff" now for my mobo to handle? Speculating?

I'll play with it some more either tonight or tomorrow.

be sure to try a different vable and on a diiferent ide channel

I had a similar problem with a HDD. Turned out the HDD had to be set to "Cable Select" with the jumper to be seen correctly. Not sure if you DVD has that setting but if it does I think it would be worth a try.

I have 2 ribbon cables (neatly buried behind 2 HDDs thus hard to see) and when I removed the old cd-rom drive connected to the other cable, it had slipped into the mess of wiring and I was previously trying to run the new DVD drive and burner off one channel (ribbon cable) instead by accident. Shouldn't play with this stuff late at night
I now have the Plexwriter (burner) jumped as master like before and the DVD drive as slave.

Everything works but the bios sees the DVD drive as a secondary slave (burner is primary master). Should I leave it alone or might it be better to jump the DVD drive as master also? Does it matter?