CD Device (not installed)

Question

Ok so i just got a Dell Optiplex gx110 from a good friend of mine. Weird thing is, is that is never came with a cd-drive. So i opened it up and plugged a Samsung SC-140 cd drive to the secondary IDE slot and all that fun stuff. The cd-drive came out of another computer that i have thats just for messing around on and it works like a charm in that one so i know it works. So i booted the computer up and put my a windowXP disc in the drive. The computer never detected that the cd was there so i went to the BIOS menu and went to change the boot order and i never saw a choice for my plugged in cd drive. So i searched the internet for hours and i updated the system BIOS from an A05 to an A08 or 09. I dont know if that did the trick or not but i got it to read that the drive was there! I was relieved until when in the boot menu i saw this: CD-Drive (not installed)! k i went back to searching. I checked, checked, and rechecked the IDE cables and they are all good. I have tried at least twice going from setting the HD to master and auto/CB and same with the cd-drive except with slave, not master. Im tired of searching so please please can i get some tips on how i can get the computer to somehow say that the drive is installed. THANKS!!   Chris

chesswizard · Answer

besure that you are going into the BIOS and turing on the IDE port listed unders drives.  Make sure you are using cable select as well.

tr4 · Answer

If you cable has 3 connectors you need to make sure you are at the end of the cable and this would be in bios as Secondary controller master

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