I just put together a new PC. I used the Foxconn 925xe7aa motherboard. When I boot up the BIOS recognizes my hard drive which is a 300 GB Seagate but does not recognize my DVD burner which is a LITE-ON SHM-165H6S. I know the DVD burner works because I switched the DVD burner to the IDE 1 slot on the M/B and it loaded the Windows installation. Also I can see in the boot-up sequence that it has the DVD burner listed as Drive 0 but in the BIOS it has the hard drive listed as Drive 0. I have tried many things and none seem to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If the drive is working fine, there is no need to fret over what the BIOS says.

The internet is a series of tubes!

That's the thing though. I have yet to install Windows and i cannot get the PC to recognize both drives at the same time. Any suggestions.

Install the burner in the second slot. That's where you really want it for optinun operation. Transfers between the hard drive and the DVD drive will work much faster if they are on different cables.

The problem is probably that you have them both plugged as Master.

Do yourself a favor BACKUP!

You really need to install it correctly and set the jumpers correctly if you expect it to function....correctly!

LOL. I try my best but maybe i missed something very small in the installation. Thanks for the help and i wil report back with my results.

I installed both the drives on different cables, the hdd in IDE 1 and the DVD drive in IDE 2. I set them both to master and the hdd showed in the BIOS but the DVD drive only showed in one of the bootup screen...