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Setting up NEC 2510 (slave) drive - PROBLEM

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iKwak

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Hi. Just added the NEC 2510 dvdrw to my pc as a slave drive.
I changed the little plug on the back of the drive from primary to slave. And my cd-rewriter is the primary drive.


Turned on the pc and the cd-rewriter (primary) is not showing. Only the dvd-rewriter is showing.


In My Computer - the dvd-rom drive is reading as
NEB DVD^RV ND 2410 :confused:

What could be the problem?





BTW, this was an OEM drive so nothing came along with the drive.
Running Windows XP Pro.
 
iKwak said:
Hi. Just added the NEC 2510 dvdrw to my pc as a slave drive.
I changed the little plug on the back of the drive from primary to slave. And my cd-rewriter is the primary drive.


Turned on the pc and the cd-rewriter (primary) is not showing. Only the dvd-rewriter is showing.


In My Computer - the dvd-rom drive is reading as
NEB DVD^RV ND 2410 :confused:

What could be the problem?





BTW, this was an OEM drive so nothing came along with the drive.
Running Windows XP Pro.
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-Make sure you didnt mistakenly knock the power or IDE cable out of the back of the one thats not showing up. :)

-Do you have the master on the end of the cable and the slave on the middle connector?
If not, swap the cable around!

-Try swapping the drives, making the master slave and the slave master (and re-connect the cable correctly, of course)

If all else fails...Some drives just dont play well together.
 
All of the above, plus:
You could set both drives to "Cable Select" and try it...hope this helps!
 
This is frustrating.
After the setup, the windows loading time had increased by 7x!! It takes about 1 whole minute for the loading. This happened after inserting the dvdrw.


1) I tried setting both the dvdrw and cdrw to "Cable Select." No luck. Still the windows take soooo long to load and the drive does not show up at all.

2) I have switched - dvdrw to primary and cdrw to slave. Still does not work.

3) I have switched back - cdrw to primary and dvdrw to slave. Only the dvdrw shows up but as NEB DVD 2410a (rather than 2510).

4) The dvdrw was very HOT when I was removing from the case.



What else would you recommend to do? I feel like contacting Newegg and getting the drive RMA. What do you think?
 
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