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Hi. I got this new LG GSA-4167B DVD/RW DL Drive and I installed the cd before I put the drive in. I did and now the PC recognizes neither of my CD drives...I don't have internet on that computer and the firmware update is too big to put on a floppy. what do i do?
Are the drives listed in the BIOS and device manager ?
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Check the jumper setting on the rear of the device...use either master or slave, whichever you need dependng upon your configuration. Do not use cable select.
It's also best not to install 2 optical drives on the same cable/channel (same goes for HDDs). The burner should be on the 2ndary channel (preferrably as master)...the other optical drive should be the primary slave.
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no I checked in the beginning when the pc was booting up and it sayd
searching for ide drives
Primary: none
Secondary: noneAnd when i looked in hardware i just found
primary ide drive
secondary ide driveand i checked in my computer and they arent there
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If they are not listed in the BIOS, they should not show up in windows, apparently the drives are not configured properly.
Check your cabling and jumpers again.
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ok it works now. but when i burned a cd, it was kinda slow, im not sure if this is because i used a CD-RW disk. But I copied the firmware update from my other computer onto the computer with the new drive. but when i click on it it says:
Can't find the Target drive
then it gives me a space to type something in
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It said you should go online to get the most recent firmware update. And The jumper was set to master when it was plugged in slave. I took out my old drive and plugged it in the master slot and put my old drive in slave.
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Like I said in an earlier post, it's best not to pair up 2 optical drives or 2 HDDs. If you have both optical drives on the same cable & you burn "on the fly", it will burn slower & produce more "coasters". Here's the ideal config:
prim master = HDD w/OS
prim slave = optical reader
2ndary master = optical writer
2ndary slave = none (or 2nd HDD)However, if you have 2 HDDs, the above may cause cabling problems...if that's the case, you can do this:
prim master = HDD w/OS
prim slave = optical reader
2ndary master = 2nd HDD
2ndary slave = optical writerHellz Yea!
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