Cdrom & RW not responding

frothingbadgerfrothingbadger
edited August 2005 in Hardware
Right, I am sure embarrassed but here goes!

My PC was working fine and I put in a new RW that had been given to me. I threw it into one of the extra slots and stupidly jacked it into the ribbon cable servicing the HD.

Now my PC will not boot up with the secondary ide cable hooked up. It will start up with the cable disconnected but then my RW and Cdrom are unavailable.

Is this a simple fix, or did I really mess things up?

Cheers & thanx!

Comments

  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Do you have a new cable? They are easily replacable.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited August 2005
    Make sure they are either both jumpered as cable select, or that one is Master and the other is Slave. If you do it the Master/Slave way make sure the Master drive is at the end of the cable.
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