johnfeil Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 I have completed building my new rig (specs below). However I have no power to my DVD drive. I have swapped drives and the cable from the power supply to the drive. The system does not recognise any optical drive and the drive draw will now open with the button on the drive. I am out of trouble shooting ideas except for perhaps the power supply has a fault. Surely an 860w supply is enough. Any help much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speed Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 That you've swapped out cables AND drives says that the PSU doesn't have a problem. There is only one common denominator, here, the optical drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnfeil Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 Thanks. I wonder what the odds that two optical drives are both faulty. As it turns out both my initial drive and the spare seem faulty. The third drive seems to work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speed Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 You have three optical drives? Didn't say that in the original post. Well, that one of the three opticals works pretty much eliminates the PSU as being the issue AND that this is [seemingly] limited to only optical drives doesn't make any logical sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaiShan Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Thanks. I wonder what the odds that two optical drives are both faulty. As it turns out both my initial drive and the spare seem faulty. The third drive seems to work fine. Two drives? It might not be the drives themselves. Two months ago I had a similar problem. Turns out that it was an issue with Windows which sometimes happens after programs are installed. I had to reset my registry values or something like that to get my PC to recognize the drive again. It was pretty simple to do. If your drives appear under BIOS even though they are not being recognized, then this is most likely the case. I accidentally deleted the link to the steps I followed, but just search "Windows won't detect DVD drive" and you should get a bunch of results. This may or may not work for you, but it will be better to try this before you waste more money or time trying to replace anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speed Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 The initial symptoms described don't have anything to do with Windows seeing them. The drawer won't open via the button on the front of the drive. Whether Windows sees it or not, the drawer should open on a physical switch command. Just had a thought while typing this. Are any of the optical drives IDE running through adapters on the SATA bus? The one in your specs is SATA but are the others? If you are using IDE drives on an SATA bus through adapters, the drives all have to be set to be Master. Don't know if this would have any influence on powering them but just wanted to check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaiShan Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 The initial symptoms described don't have anything to do with Windows seeing them. The drawer won't open via the button on the front of the drive. Whether Windows sees it or not, the drawer should open on a physical switch command. Typically this is true, but my PC was having the same issue as his and it turned out to be a Windows issue. Like I said this may not be the case for him, but I wasted a lot of time checking connections and things like this thinking the same way as you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speed Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Well, that's just weird. Windows preventing power getting to a device is a first, at least for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaiShan Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Well, that's just weird. Windows preventing power getting to a device is a first, at least for me. I only mentioned it because in the original post he mentioned the drive wasn't being recognized, but he did say he was able to open the drive by pushing the button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speed Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Depends upon whether you read the word "now" as having a typo and "not" was actually intended. Otherwise, the sentence didn't make much sense to be included in the symptoms, as there was no previous state of it not opening and "now" it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaiShan Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Depends upon whether you read the word "now" as having a typo and "not" was actually intended. Otherwise, the sentence didn't make much sense to be included in the symptoms, as there was no previous state of it not opening and "now" it does. Are you really arguing about this? I was merely going by the OP's own words. If its a typo, that is up to him to clear up. Otherwise, my advice still stands. :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speed Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Just explaining How I read it, pal. Lighten up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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