Trouble installing new CD-ROM drive

[teck]

Hi everyone, i have gone through the boards a little and think I could get some help here. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif I didn't really see any previous thread that could help me, although admittedly I didn't search too hard.

Anyway, here's my problem. My old CD-ROM drive was probably busted (couldn't read anything, data or audio) so I bough a new 48x Sony IDE internal and thought installing it would be a breeze.

So I did it. I removed the old Win98 drivers for my faulty drive and switched off my PC. I then removed my old CD-ROM and put in my new one, putting in all cables in exactly the same slots as they would have gone with the old one.

After that, I thought it would simply be a matter of booting back up and have Windows prompt me to install drivers for my new CD-ROM. But I couldn't get past POST.

Each time I'd be informed of Master Hard Drive failure (something to that effect).

So I pulled out that CD-ROM drive and put my old one back in and was able to boot up properly.

What could be wrong?

I run a Celeron-466 with 128m RAM using a Gigagbyte Via-based mobo.

My CD-ROM drive IDE cable is directly connected to my HDD.

I was asked to check my BIOS settings for my CD-rom drive, whether it was a slave of some kind. In my BIOS settings, all these masters and slaves camein the form of numbers, none explicitly stating whether they were referring to the CD-ROM or HDD or whatever. What I do know though is that in POST, my CD-ROM is detected as IDE Primary Slave.

Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

[tjaymadison]

Welcome, teck! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Sounds like a jumper problem.

Look at both the old and the new CR-ROM drives from the rear. Next to where
the data ribbon cable connects should be a set of six pins arranged like this.

. . .
. . .

Above them on the housing should be stamped 'MA', 'SL', AND 'CS',
for Master, Slave, and Cable Select.

There should be small black jumper shorting block connecting two of the pins.
If it's in the 'MA' position, you need to move it to the 'SL' position.
You can usually grab it with a pair of tweezers, or maybe your fingernails, to remove it.
If you're working inside the case, be careful -- it can be easy to drop and hard to find if you do.

Good Luck! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[teck]

Thanks alot tjay, this was indeed the problem.

I have since changed the jumper setting on my cd-rom to slave and it now works perfectly.

Huge big thanks again.