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PCIe card or DVD-RW drive wont install
Nine_Lives
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The DVD-RW drive has been installed before. I formatted the HDDs & just didn't connect it up again as i have a blu-ray drive in there too which i was using.
Bought a PCIe card as i needed another SATA slot. This one to be exact: http://www.ebuyer.com/205769-startech-com-2-port-sata-6-gbps-pci-express-sata-controller-card-pexsat32
Anyway, i've connected everything up & the DVD-RW drive opens & closes but it's not recognized in My Computer at all.
In addition to this, the PCIe card installation manual says in Windows 7, it'll be listed under the "IDE ATA/ATAPI controller" category as "Standard AHCI device". As you can see, it doesn't mention Standard AHCI device.
How to get this working?
EDIT: I forgot to add - when i booted into Windows, it just said it needed to be restarted, but this didn't fix the problem.
Bought a PCIe card as i needed another SATA slot. This one to be exact: http://www.ebuyer.com/205769-startech-com-2-port-sata-6-gbps-pci-express-sata-controller-card-pexsat32
Anyway, i've connected everything up & the DVD-RW drive opens & closes but it's not recognized in My Computer at all.
In addition to this, the PCIe card installation manual says in Windows 7, it'll be listed under the "IDE ATA/ATAPI controller" category as "Standard AHCI device". As you can see, it doesn't mention Standard AHCI device.
How to get this working?
EDIT: I forgot to add - when i booted into Windows, it just said it needed to be restarted, but this didn't fix the problem.
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Have you enabled in bios?0
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I was just about to update.
It needed to be enabled in BIOS. The annoying thing about this is it adds on an extra 'page' & more time during the boot process. Would love to know if this can be worked around.0
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