OK, maybe I am beating a dead horse, and saying something dumb here.... 1). Check to make sure you do not have both devices on the same IDE set to MASTER. MAKE SURE... 2). It may be possible for the IDE ribbon to be installed incorrectly on the mb... make sure you have pin 1 of the ribbon cable on pin1 on the IDE port on the mb. 3). If you have not pushed the ribbon cable completely, it is possible some of the pins are not making full contact. Make sure both on the mb side and on the device side, that the ribbon is fully inserted and is not crooked... 4). At this point, you might want to use the AUTODETECT DEVICES setting in BIOS to see if you can force the mb to detect the CD ROM device. 5). If everything is set properly, your IDE ribbons, your jumper settings and you have power properly plugged in, then it probably is your device which is faulty. After all, given that: your mb is working properly your ide ribbons are correct and seated properly your jumpers are set correctly your power is enabled to the device Those things are correct...it can only be your device...

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I went through and confirmed all of what you said Jim C. I thank you for the efforts, but everything is hooked up right. I even double checked to make sure. As far as the device goes, I popped it in a new dell system, and it worked perfectly. The OS on that system is Home XP. Now im beyond confused and am ready to toss the whole system through the window.. Or maybe whack it with an axe... :| It makes no logical sense. Thanks to everyone for your time and help. If you think of anything else post it, ill keep checking up.

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What make of comp is the one your workin on

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Temporarily disconnect the new drive and see if you still get the beeps when you reboot. It may not be the burner but something you did while installing it. As far as the bios not seeing it--that's not necessarily a problem. If you identified it in cmos as 'cdrom' it may not show up on the posting screen. Usually only drives identified as AUTO show up there. But the bios doesn't need to see it anyway as long as the controller it's connected to is enabled.

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Hi y'all, Nice job, Jim C:-) Danny This may help you, install your CD ROM and the Burner. Already mentioned, I think:-) This is the bible IDE 1... H/D=Master... 2nd H/D= Slave (If there is one ) IDE 2... CD-RW=Master... CD-Rom= Slave... Remove everything in Device manager pretaining to the cd-rom and the cd-rw, if they are showing in device manager... Boot with windows 98 se, bootdisk, choose with cd-rom support, with your cd windows disk in the cd-rom...That should give you the drivers for the cd-rom... When you get to the C: prompt, reboot the system...Then install the cd-rw...Unless windows finds the cd-rw...Then just follow the on screen dialogs... If this fails, purchase new ribbon cables.. Good luck beansoup

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I suggest a refocus on Jim's #7 post. 4). At this point, you might want to use the AUTODETECT DEVICES setting in BIOS to see if you can force the mb to detect the CD ROM device. I did not see you confirm this step was taken or not. Regards, Bryan

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