I have purchased my computer a week ago and since the first day I have a problem with my cd-rom. The cd-rom is not recognized. What I mean is when I check the device manager it is not there and I cannot see the cd-rom icon under my computer. Then I just click scan for hardware changes and it appears both in device manager and under my computer. It plays the media but when I insert another media type( it maybe either movie or audio- it is just random) it disappears again. I need to either restart, or scan for hardware changes or uninstall or reinstall the device. When I make the configuration I have attached the cd-rom to IDE2 and havent set any jumpers and under BIOS it appears as a secondary IDE slave. My HDD is primary master and cd-rom is secondary slave. I do not think that can be a problem but I just wanted to mention that and my cd-rom is LG (52X). Thanks in advance for any solutions!

First of all...did you build this PC or get it built? I looks to me like you didnt plug the LG (52x) in the right spot. On your motherboard you have 2 diferent type of IDE plugs, one for Hard Drives and one for CD-roms. So if you have a hardrive one your master (like it should be) and your CD-rom on your slve (Like it shouldnt be) thats your problem. What you need is to put your cd-rom as master and plug it into the IDE CD-rom plug and not your hard drive plus (they are 2 diferent things). Hope that answered your question.

I have built the computer. HDD is plugged into IDE1 as master and CD-ROM is plugged into IDE2 as slave. I am a A+ certified person and know a bit about this stuff. But thanks so much for trying to help. What I have in mind is I will try to reformat but the thing is I have already installed Visual Studio and do not want to do all stuff again. Any further suggestions will be appreciated!