hi I have a dvd player hooked up to sec slave and when I start the computer up freshly it detects the dvd and in the bios I have it set up to auto detect. When I restart my computer it doesn't detect it. any ideas thanks

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Hi Mike This is not an isue with the computer. Each time you start the pc from power off state as you have set the bios to auto, it will do that. When you reset the pc the hardware of the pc is not turned off and therefore the bios still retains its settings. why is it causing you a problem ? does the DVD stop working after you restart the PC ?

Thanks for the inputs guys, Richard yes the dvd stops working after I restart my computer it says the detection failed and nothing is going on with the dvd. Also when I go to device manager it is not there.