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XP won't recognize DVD Drive

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by albizu

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I just built my pc with an Elitegourp Extreme KV2 motherboard with 2 gig RAM, a Samsun SATA SH-S203 DVD Burner and a Seagate SATA HDD (500 gig). I installed XP Home edition and it installed fine. However, when the machine boots, my DVD Rom is nowhere to be found. I'm trying to use it to install other programs, but it just won't recognize it. The BIOS looks like no other BIOS I've ever seen, since it doesn't have a listing for any CD/DVD Drives. I'm truly at a loss and hope that someone can offer some insight. Thank you.

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by thechas

Since you can't see the drive, I suspect that you do not have all of the chip-set and SATA drivers installed.

Go to the Elitegroup web site and download the specific drivers for your motherboard. Then, install them.

Upon rebooting, all should be fine.

If not, open device manager and see what items have a "!" or "?" mark. Try removing these devices and letting Windows discover them on a reboot.

You may need to remove the drives and SATA controller if they are listed in order for Windows to properly update the drivers.

Chas

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