CD DVD Problem

Hello readers,

I replaced an old IDE cd rom with a new SATA DVD rom. My PC for some odd
reason wont boot without the old cd rom. I have the power connected but not
the IDE cable and as soon as I take the power out my old cd rom, my pc starts
to reboot over and over. I have taken out the drive from the BIOS and I don't
see it anywhere, but still I haven't being able to figure out what the
problem is. As far as the drivers goes everything looks to be working
properly under Systems.

Any Help would be appreciated

Herman Portillo

smlunatick
Tue Mar 25 06:21:30 PDT 2008

On Mar 24, 11:16=A0pm, hermnden <hermn...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Hello readers,
>
> I replaced an old IDE cd rom with a new SATA DVD rom. =A0My PC for some od=
d
> reason =A0wont boot without the old cd rom. =A0I have the power connected =
but not
> the IDE cable and as soon as I take the power out my old cd rom, my pc sta=
rts
> to reboot over and over. I have taken out the drive from the BIOS and I do=
n't
> see it anywhere, but still I haven't being able to figure out what the
> problem is. =A0As far as the drivers goes everything looks to be working
> properly under Systems.
>
> Any Help would be appreciated
>
> Herman Portillo

Please verify that the hard drive is not set to "slave." The only
problem I see is that the PC is waiting to find a master IDE drive,
which could have been the CD drive.

Mark
Tue Mar 25 06:20:17 PDT 2008

At a guess, you are set to first boot to CD. If you go into BIOS settings
you can change that to boot to hard drive first.

bios setup access keys. Go to:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

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"hermnden" <hermnden@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:051B597D-7424-4211-A3E9-8E7ECE22D04A@microsoft.com...
> Hello readers,
>
> I replaced an old IDE cd rom with a new SATA DVD rom. My PC for some odd
> reason wont boot without the old cd rom. I have the power connected but
> not
> the IDE cable and as soon as I take the power out my old cd rom, my pc
> starts
> to reboot over and over. I have taken out the drive from the BIOS and I
> don't
> see it anywhere, but still I haven't being able to figure out what the
> problem is. As far as the drivers goes everything looks to be working
> properly under Systems.
>
> Any Help would be appreciated
>
> Herman Portillo