The other day some plugsfrom inside my computer were pulled out and I plugged themback in now mycdrom and rewriter arent showing on my comuter and they wont even eject the light on the CDROm just stays green. please helpme! I am pretty sure that I plugged them back in correctly but i am for sure that when the plugs were pulled the computer was on.. what gives

Sounds like your ribbon cables are not plugged back in correctly. Were the cables flat with 40 conductors (wires) and a grey plug? If so, open you case up and look for the Pin 1 assignment on the MB with the cable and then the Pin 1 assignment on the CDrom and Rewriter. Make sure they are correctly aligned and pin 1 for pin 1.

Originally Posted by AphJN

Sounds like your ribbon cables are not plugged back in correctly. Were the cables flat with 40 conductors (wires) and a grey plug? If so, open you case up and look for the Pin 1 assignment on the MB with the cable and then the Pin 1 assignment on the CDrom and Rewriter. Make sure they are correctly aligned and pin 1 for pin 1.

Also check that they are put in the correct order on the cable. If you look at the back of each driver (whether it be a hard drive, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Zip drive), there will a jumper which makes the drive on of the following -

Master
Master or single drive
Slave
Cable Select
Master with non-ATA compatable slave
Limit drive to so many gigabytes (some many cyclinders)

Note: Not all drives have all the options

You then need to descide which one of the drives will be the slave and which one will be the master. Usually the CD-RW, DVD or DVD +/- RW will be the master and the drive lower down the chain* will be the slave. In your case your CD-RW will be the master and CD-ROM will be the salve

Also you'll need to make sure that they are connected to the ribbon in the right order. A 3 connection ribbon cable will have 2 off the connections close together (see - http://www.dvworkshop.co.uk/Computer...Cards/IDE2.jpg or a modern verison - http://images.tigerdirect.com/SKUima...1034-main.jpg). You need to conect the ribbon so that the longest part of the cable connects the the main board leaving the short distance between the drives. The connector futhest away from the mainboard is the master, then the slave, then obviously the motherboard connector.


I hope this helps and I'm sorry for the whole speach. Just copied and pasted an old post.


Regards
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Meck


*Note: Chain of command for removable media drives
1) DVD RAM/+/- RW
2) DVD +/- RW
3) either DVD+RW or DVD-RW
4) CD-RW with DVD playback ability
5) CD-RW
6) CD-ROM
7) ZIP
8) JAZ