I decided it was about time I built a gaming/rendering machine after having this crap 9 year old computer in my room for so long. So, after spending 550 bucks and 2 hours assembling the computer, my CD/DVD drive gets read as a floppy drive.
Anything I can do? I’m not the only person who has this problem, either, if you read the reviews, although I don’t plan on using his solution (taking a USB CD drive, disassembling it, and replacing it with the new drive).
On your CD rom drive, check the jumper plug in the back. A tiny little plastic 2-pin plug in one of the sets of pins in the back. Different motherboards read the position settings differently, you may have had it set as a primary/master…or pehaps a slave drive on your old pc. Your new one may interpret the settings differently, if there is a jumper at all, remember where it was plugged in at, but try removing it…or set it at a different setting.
I had a jumper on my main DVD drive set to primary on my old pc, on my new pc, I had to remove the jumper to get the motherboard to see it correctly.
Try that first, let us know, otherwise it could be in your BIOS, but we’ll deal with that next.
I may have messed up the IDE setup as well, as I only have experience with SATA. Currently, the CD/DVD drive is on the third connector, the second one has nothing on it, and the first connector goes into the motherboard. In other words, it’s on the master connector.
Wow, this is interesting…in an annoying way. Does the BIOS display it as a floppy drive? If so, try disabling floppy drive detection in the BIOS altogether and see what it does. It’s possible, since you’re using an SATA HDD, standard IDE may be disabled in your BIOS.
it’s strange that default BIOS settings sometimes disable onboard IDE ports when you use SATA. And all the while, they maintain an enabled floppy port. I haven’t had a floppy drive in years, while I’ll never go without a DVD rom drive!
