my LITE-ON CD-RW and LG DVD-RW having problems?

[Tru_Snoop]

Hey guys;

I just formatted my drive and installed windows xp. Everything went smooth. However I can't seem to make my CD-RW and DVD-RW to work. I have LITE-ON LTR 482465 CD-RW and LG DVD-RW drives. They both don't show up in My computer. What is wrong? LG is setup as Primary drive and LITE-ON as Secondary.

Physically both drives are set on "CS".

I don't have cd roms for both of these drives. Where can I get new firmware and drivers? What should I do?

thanks

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
When you boot, do you see these devices listed?
Are CD / DVDs enabled in your BIOS?
What OS were you running before XP?
Firmware and drivers normally come with the package you buy, or you can download them from the manufacturer's sites.
Did you open the case and play with wires, cables, plugs etc?
If you installed Windows XP, how did you do it? From CD?
Mrk

[JimIT]

-{ Quote: "Hey guys;

I just formatted my drive and installed windows xp. Everything went smooth. However I can't seem to make my CD-RW and DVD-RW to work. I have LITE-ON LTR 482465 CD-RW and LG DVD-RW drives. They both don't show up in My computer. What is wrong? LG is setup as Primary drive and LITE-ON as Secondary.

Physically both drives are set on "CS".

I don't have cd roms for both of these drives. Where can I get new firmware and drivers? What should I do?

thanks" }-

Are they both on the same IDE cable? If so, try putting the jumper of one to Master setting, and the other to Slave, instead of Cable Select, and see if that fixes it.

You also may simply have an IDE cable that is loose, so make sure everything's good and tight.