CD/DVD drive not showing anywhere
helicon1984
Sovici, Bosna i Hercegovina
Hi everyone. My new comp. arrived yesterday with preinstalled Win7 RC (64bit) but when I go into Computer only my Local Disk C (640GB WD Caviar Black) is showing, not my optical drive (Pioneer DVR-217FBK High Speed Dual Format Labelflash drive with SATA interface). I contacted the guys that assembled the comp and they said that it worked fine when they were installing Win7 so they're not sure what the problem could be. The drive opens and closes just fine and I can put a CD or DVD in there but it simply doesn't autorun as it should.
When I went into my BIOS it showed these two things:
IDE CHANNEL 5 640WD MASTER
IDE CHANNEL 5 PIONEER DVR SLAVE, or something similar and I'm thinking shouldn't these SATA drives be configured as AHCI and could that be the problem? Would maybe another clean install of Win7 solve the problem? Can someone help? Thanks.
When I went into my BIOS it showed these two things:
IDE CHANNEL 5 640WD MASTER
IDE CHANNEL 5 PIONEER DVR SLAVE, or something similar and I'm thinking shouldn't these SATA drives be configured as AHCI and could that be the problem? Would maybe another clean install of Win7 solve the problem? Can someone help? Thanks.
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This procedure applies to Vista and Windows 7, as well.
It's not showing Upper or Lower filters just this below.
In your device manager, remove all the devices under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers and reboot. Do not reboot until you've clicked uninstall on each device. If a device removal asks you to reboot, cancel it and move on to the next one.
It removes them all up to that last one ATA Channel 1 which won't uninstall. Here's the pic:
It doesn't matter if it disappears from the list.
Once you've done that for all of those devices, restart.
Even the three Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controllers?
Sorry. I rebooted and the Computer is still showing the same as above and the regedit pic looks like this:
Just tried it. No, it doesn't. How can it open and close with the light on and still not show up anywhere? The guys that installed Win7 say it worked or how would they install it otherwise?
The drive opens because it has power.
Great. So, can I fix it? With your help, of course.
So Thrax man, have you figured anything out since yesterday?
Do these people actually know what they're doing?
Turn AHCI on, reinstall 7 x64, and I bet you it'll work just fine.
- SATA RAID/AHCI Mode () and it says under it:
Enables or disables RAID for the SATA controllers integrated in the Intel ICH10R South Bridge or configures the SATA controllers to AHCI mode
Disabled - configures the SATA controll. to PATA mode (default)
RAID - ....
AHCI - config. the SATA controll. to AHCI mode etc.
- SATA Port0-3 Native mode (Intel ICH10R South Bridge)
Specifies the operating mode of the integrated SATA controllers
Disabled - Allows the SATA controllers to operate in Legacy IDE mode.... Set this option if you want to install operating systems that do not support native mode (default)
Enabled - Allows the SATA controllers to operate in Native IDE mode....
There's also this under the same BIOS chapter:
Onboard SATA/IDE Device (GIGABYTE SATA2 Chip)
Enables or
Disables RAID for the SATA controllers integrated in the GIGABYTE SATA2 Chip or configures the SATA controller to AHCI mode
Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode (GIGABYTE SATA2 Chip)
IDE
AHCI
RAID/IDE
What exactly should I enable/disable?
After that I should set it to boot from CD/DVD and insert the Win7 CD, set my partitions, format and install, right? And after that I should first install drivers for my motherboard and then everything else?
It says on the mobo DVD - chipsets, serial-ata, raid, network and audio drivers (to install these, right?). Also Norton, Adobe Reader, EasyTune etc. (not necessary of course) and to go to AMD/ATI's site and download the latest drivers for my HD 4870.
Not sure yet. Supposedly (I've been told by the people that installed Win7) yes.
If it fails... I think you need a new drive
Should I now set everything to AHCI, reinstall Windows etc.?
Why not reinstall? Shouldn't SATA drives be set to AHCI anyway?
It may not do that until the controller is identified properly.