Help with DVD Drive

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downthesun

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I recently built a new computer due to my old computer's motherboard frying and I kept some of the parts from the old computer.

The hard drives and the DVD rom are the only thing that came into the new pc.
The drive is SH-S182M. Basically on my new motherboard there is only one IDE slot connection and the rest are sata. I have one hard drive and the DVD drive hooked up to the IDE slot. The hard drive is set to master and the DVD is slave I guess.

If I have a drive in the computer when I boot up, my computer will recognize the disc without a problem. Once I take the disc out and put in another disc it will no longer recognize a new disc being put in the drive. The icon for the old disc still appears in My Computer over the DVD drive area.

Is my DVD drive broken or am I just doing something stupid?

Thanks for any help in advance.
 
When I turn my PC on, the drive is listed as a DVD Drive, once I open the drive it changes to DVD RAM Drive.
 
What is your boot sequence in BIOS, and what does Bios recognize the DVD as?
 
The DVD drive was 4th in boot sequence. I changed it to be the first boot device. I also went to the boot priority and disabled the hard drive.

The IDE drive is not my main drive.
 
Sounds like it could be a BIOS setting problem, again, what does your BIOS recognize the DVD drive as?

You also need to be positive as to your master and slave jumpers on the DVD and hard drive, double check them, if in doubt go to the manufacturers website and verify. Try that after you know for sure. If still having problems disconnect the hard drive and set your DVD to master, and see what happens
 
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