Cd drive doesent turn on when plugged into IDE

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When I plug my cd drive just into the power cable, the cd drive works fine, and opens up. When I plug in the ide cable, it no longer lights up or ejects the disk. Does it matter whether the cd drive is plugged into ide1 or ide2? When I first got the pc I think I had the same problem, but I forgot how to fix it. Anyone have any ideas.

Upgrading this pc has been a real pain in the a$$. The first time nothing showed up on the screen and there were no beeps. Then I got a new motherboard and still didnt show anything on screen. So I'm 98% sure its the video card. Still need a video card.
 
You have probably done everything else right, except this: use a 80 conductor cable, instead of a 40 conductor cable, and it will work right. It doesn't matter which IDE channel it is plugged into.

EDIT: FYI, I will probably never see this post again, seeing as I never come in here, but your thread in GenMay led me here....so thank me there.... ;)
 
I probably should have posted that I've tried about 6 different cables and none of them have worked. None of the cables say what they are either. And I also have no idea what the system is doing.
 
Is the cable a 80 wire cable? If not, you need one. Google will show you the difference.
 
All of them look the same to me. I googled 80 pin and they pretty much all look like that. I'm going to try to rewire the psu to the drives to see if that changes anything.
 
An 80-pin IDE cable will have wires in it. A 40-pin cable will have 40 wires in it. Just count them to see.
 
The 80/40-pin IDE cable thing should not matter. You need to resolve your power-on issue before addressing the CD-ROM drive. It probably won't eject because the system isn't POSTing.
 
Like Y2K SE said, the 80/40-pin IDE cable thing should not matter. You only need an 80 wire cable if there is a hard drive on that channel. A 40 wire cable is good up to ATA-66 - optical drives, and the 80 wire ATA-100, ATA-133 - hard drives. If you are using an 80 wire cable and the drive is jumpered to cable select then the connector you plug the drive into will determin if it's a master or slave. Center connector is slave and the end connector is master. If you are not using cable sellect it doesn't matter what connector you use. If the drive is jumpered for master then it's master. If you have two drives on that channel make sure that they aren't both jumpered as master or slave. There has to be one master and one slave. The onlt time they can be the same on one channel is if they are both set to cable sellect.
 
To test whether they were working I usually plugged one drive into master, then slave then tried the same with the other and that did nothing. Both times its like they weren't plugged in. But If i disconnected the ide cable, they work fine. The only thing that isnt plugged in on the system are the video card and the hard drive. Could this cause the problem> I'll plug in the hard drive later.
 
I would put a video card in and try it again. The PC probabaly won't post without a video card so who knows what kind or state it's in.
 
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I put in a newvideo card and now there's still nothing on the screen. What the hell???? I had a motherboard which I returned had it all hooked up and the display had nothing. Could the processor be causing this????? Now I have to return a video card.
 
garrettgjb said:
But If i disconnected the ide cable, they work fine. The only thing that isnt plugged in on the system are the video card and the hard drive. Could this cause the problem> I'll plug in the hard drive later.
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Quit worrying about step 423 while you are stuck on step 18. If the system does not POST, the CDROM drive tray probably will not eject. The tray ejects when you do not have the IDE cable plugged in because the drive is not being held down by the controller on the motherboard.

As for your POST problem, it could be a multitude of things, including a bad processor.
 
Belive me, I dont care about the ide at all at this point. So far I bought a mobo and now a video card and system still displays nothing. I didnt think a procesor would do this. Is there any way to make sure? At this point my system is

Amd Athlon XP 2000+ Socket 478
>300mb ram Pc2100
200gb Hd
MSI MX 4000

It does everything fine. I was thinking about upgrading just mobo and procesor but then I also have to upgrade the ram. I only have like 100 bucks so I guess thats out of the question.

EDIT : PLEASE HELP ME HERE

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1030299600#post1030299600
 
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