Hi all,

I am having trouble setting my computer up after putting it into a new box. it is a hardware problem, i think i broke something but dont know what. say i put hdd on ide1 as master and dvd as master and cdrw as slave on ide2, everything looks ok but windows cant use the dvd drive. linux could play music on it but not mount it with data. this is how my computer was set up originally so i thought it must be a windows problem. i re-installed windows using the dvd drive, it installed fine. but as soon as i went into windows, same problem, couldnt use the drive i just installed it with. after going nuts for a while i tried all different combos of setting it up. if i have hdd and cdrw on same ide then hdd wont boot, if i have dvd an cd on same then dvd wont work (in windows or linux but bios will load it and work) if i have hdd and dvd on same ide it will work but slow. if anyone could please shed some light on this, i have a feeling i might have slightly damaged the motherboard.

Regards,
Chris