Technique Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 The DVD-RW drive has been installed before. I formatted the HDDs & just didn't connect it up again as i have a blu-ray drive in there too which i was using. Bought a PCIe card as i needed another SATA slot. This one to be exact: http://www.ebuyer.co...r-card-pexsat32 Anyway, i've connected everything up & the DVD-RW drive opens & closes but it's not recognized in My Computer at all. In addition to this, the PCIe card installation manual says in Windows 7, it'll be listed under the "IDE ATA/ATAPI controller" category as "Standard AHCI device". As you can see, it doesn't mention Standard AHCI device. How to get this working? EDIT: I forgot to add - when i booted into Windows, it just said it needed to be restarted, but this didn't fix the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technique Posted November 21, 2012 Author Share Posted November 21, 2012 To update: It needed to be enabled in BIOS. The annoying thing about this is it adds on an extra 'page' & more time during the boot process. Would love to know if this can be worked around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+PeterUK MVC Posted November 21, 2012 MVC Share Posted November 21, 2012 Click DVD/CD-ROM drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technique Posted November 21, 2012 Author Share Posted November 21, 2012 Click DVD/CD-ROM drives To do what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Reseat the PCI Express card... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+PeterUK MVC Posted November 22, 2012 MVC Share Posted November 22, 2012 To do what? To see if its listed under that because why would the DVD/CD-ROM drives display in device manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technique Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 why would the DVD/CD-ROM drives display in device manager. Um....to tell me which DVD/CD-ROM drives are installed in the machine.....??Anyway, i said i sorted it in post #2. Thanks anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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