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scruff311
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_ 		1. December 2007 @ 13:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I just got a LITE-ON LH-20A1S SATA DVD-RW drive yesterday and hooked it up. My BIOS detects it and I have enabled the SATA ports. My motherboard is an ABIT IS7-V2. The setting for enabling the SATA is called 'Enchanced' mode where SATA port 1 is referred to as IDE-3 Master. The problem is that when I boot up windows, it doesn't even know my new DVD-RW exists. What could possibly be the problem here? Usually windows will display 'Found new hardware' followed by 'Your hardware is installed and ready to use' at which point i can update the firmware and be ready to roll. This is my first SATA device I've ever tried to use on this computer so I don't have any prior experience with them. Help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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QuikDraw
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_ 		3. December 2007 @ 01:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Is the light on the drive showing on at the BIOS screen? Do you know what I mean? The BIOS finds all the drives at boot and displays them on the black boot screen. This is the first place I look in an attempt to discern the problem.
Go to device manager and do a scan for hardware changes and see if the new drive is picked up.
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