problem with dvdr drive on ide#2 and 3

[DONTHAVEONE]

i have a gigabyte GA-8I945P-G motherboard
intel 3.0 ghz cpu
2 westdigita harddrive 40 gig master 160 slave
lite on cdr drive master
lg dvdr on ide #2 but the problem with it is that when my computer boot up my bios
see it but window does not?
i try adding to hardware in windows but nothing comes up.

[flanzig1]

Depending on the type of IDE cable that you have on the optical drives determine how the drives are to be jumpered. If the flat cable is a 40 wire(very washboard looking and connectors same color)then the drives are jumpered Master/Slave. If a 80wire cable(connectoers blue/gray/black) then the jumpers are set to CS(cable select).

[MaxRat]

do you have burning software like Nero...does the software see it...?

some dvd burners dont like being a slave so try the cable select as mentioned... or try the drive on the IDE all by itself and see what happens?

[glc]

You have 3 IDE connectors. Only the red connector may be used for optical drives - the 2 green connectors will only work with hard drives.

[DONTHAVEONE]

looks like im going to have to rebuild the whole thing again
when i was trying to install service pack 2 the damn computer just shut off on me again
now its getting power but will not boot up again
and i dont think its the ide cable might be my board. i know my harddrive work
when i hook it up to my frans comp it work just fine

[glc]

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=168456