Floppy but no DVD?

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Dartz

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Hey guys I'm having a problem with floppy and dvd drives. :(

1. I don't have a floppy drive and nothing is plugged into the floppy connection on my motherboard yet I have a floppy (A: ) in My Computer and device manager.

2. I have an HP DVD1040 drive that is connected via IDE cable that is not recognized in Vista. Doesn't show up in My Computer or device manager.

My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P and I'm running Vista x64. I've tried going into the registry and deleting upperfilter and lowerfilter but they weren't there to begin with and I've double checked that everything is connected to the motherboard correctly. I'm completely at a loss here guys any suggestions?
 
Yeah - you need to check and see if your MB BIOS recognizes them correctly.

Do you have another optical drive you could test with? Or a second IDE cable?
 
I just checked my BIOS and I managed to set the floppy to none and disabled and now I don't see the floppy in the device manager or My Computer which is good but I'm a bit lost with the IDE stuff.

In the bios I see two hard drives and my dvd drive but one of my hard drives is supposed to be sata. The sata drive is set at the Channel 0 Master slot and the dvd and ide hard drive are set to Channel 4 Master and Slave.

I wont have another drive to test with until this weekend but this is not a pressing issue I just need the dvd for games.

I've never really had to mess with the bios so I tried to use my manual that came with the motherboard but it only confused me.
 
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