A friend's drive has stopped responding for an unknown time, it doesn't even show up on my computer or device manager on xp. Before I replace it, is there any easy way to check whether the mobo is at fault, don't want to burn money..

Ta!

um..... why dont you take one of your dvd drive in your computer that is working..... and move it over to his computer to see if it work there as well....


or are you saying that you have a friend's dvd drive that he has loan you for sometimes and not it doesnt work anymore..........

You underestimate my laziness
Hoping there was some kinda motherboard scanner thingy.

Are you saying it used to work EXACTLY as configured and then suddenly stopped working, or did you install it and it never worked?

A quick hardware check is in order. You need to check data cables, connectors and connector position on the cable, that the correct data cable is being used, the Master/Slave/Cable-Select jumper configuration is correct, and power (for example, try a different 4-pin power cable...I'm assuming it's an IDE drive).