Win xp SPIII no longer sees my Sony DVD after upgrading my desktop case!??

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I recently bought a mini-tower case for my home environment. After swapping
all of the HD's and other PCI cards, I boot to windows XP SPIII. I can get
to all of my user signons, print from them and even get on the Internet.
What I've found is X
I SPIII is not recognizing my Sony DVD drive. I had to get a free standing
PCI card to include in my system since my new Gigabyte mobo only has (1) one
IDE connector. Prior to switching cases I had no problems with this device!

When I go to Device Manager it properly displays the PCI device, but there
is no CD/DVD device item displayed.

I know my system BIOS recognizes the drive at boot-up time because I can
place my XP- CD in the device and start the install/recovery process!

Can anyone provide some info on how to get this issue resolved?
Thanks in advance . . .
 
I recently bought a mini-tower case for my home environment. After swapping
all of the HD's and other PCI cards, I boot to windows XP SPIII. I can get
to all of my user signons, print from them and even get on the Internet.
What I've found is X
I SPIII is not recognizing my Sony DVD drive. I had to get a free standing
PCI card to include in my system since my new Gigabyte mobo only has (1) one
IDE connector. Prior to switching cases I had no problems with this device!

When I go to Device Manager it properly displays the PCI device, but there
is no CD/DVD device item displayed.

I know my system BIOS recognizes the drive at boot-up time because I can
place my XP- CD in the device and start the install/recovery process!

Can anyone provide some info on how to get this issue resolved?
Thanks in advance . . .
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Tom Johnson

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The problem that you seem to be having is the fact the PCI "add-on"
card so as to give you more IDE connection will not see your DVD
drive. Yo need to not that most PCI-IDE add-on card will / may
require a separate driver to be correctly installed. Also, it seems
that several PCI-IDE add-on cards appear to not be compatible with
several DVD drives. Most PCI-IDE add-on cards are really developed /
configured for controlling harddrives
 
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