GA-8I945PL-G cannot detect an IDE CDROM drive

Dear All,

I have a Gigabyte GA-8I945PL-G and an IDE CDROM drive, which is not
detected by the BIOS. It worked fine before I updated the BIOS from F3
to F8. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

On Sep 1, 10:37*am, Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Gigabyte GA-8I945PL-G and an IDE CDROM drive, which is not
> detected by the BIOS. It worked fine before I updated the BIOS from F3
> to F8. Any ideas?

Nevermind, as I have meanwhile solved the problem.

Paul

Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sep 1, 10:37 am, Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a Gigabyte GA-8I945PL-G and an IDE CDROM drive, which is not
>> detected by the BIOS. It worked fine before I updated the BIOS from F3
>> to F8. Any ideas?
>
> Nevermind, as I have meanwhile solved the problem.
>
> Paul

Solution = ??? (i.e. what did you do to fix it ?)

We like a happy ending.

On Sep 1, 4:45*pm, Paul <nos...@needed.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 1, 10:37 am, Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I have a Gigabyte GA-8I945PL-G and an IDE CDROM drive, which is not
> >> detected by the BIOS. It worked fine before I updated the BIOS from F3
> >> to F8. Any ideas?
>
> > Nevermind, as I have meanwhile solved the problem.
>
> Solution = ??? *(i.e. what did you do to fix it ?)

My CDROM drive was not connected to the IDE cable as Slave, as I had
many IDE hard disks. Thus, my CDROM drive was connected directly to
the motherboard on IDE3 or IDE4 (cannot remember). Then, I removed an
hard disk and I connected the CDROM drive to the IDE cable as Slave. I
should tell you that the direct connect from the CDROM drive to the
motherboard (IDE3 or IDE4) worked very well until I updated the BIOS
from F3 to F8.

Paul