I have bought all new parts. No OS installed yet. BIOS is working fine. Mobo input on the IDE ribbion cable is plugged into the Mobo.The master input on the IDE is plugged into the CD/DVD DRIVE. The jumper on the drive is set to "Master". It has power. The first boot device is CD-Rom. I have a bootable DVD in the drive. When the BIOS is starting iam pressing F8 to select boot device. Problem is that it doesn't recognize the CD/DVD drive. So how can I get the BIOS to recognize the CD/DVD Drive?What else is on the IDE cable ? ?
Have you TRIED another cable ? ?
The end connector is master:

MBoard===================================slave===========master.

IDE 0 or IDE 1 ? ?
What bootable CD/DVD ? ?There is NOTHING Else on the IDE cable.
I have tried another cable.
I not sure if it's 0 or 1. There is only 1 IDE input on the Mobo so iam guessing it's 0.
Vista 32bit. Go to the advanced section in the BIOS and there should be an auto-detect for IDE ) drives that are connected...
If this doesn't pick up the drive it MAY be defective.
To test this swap the drive into another machine...Thanks a TON! I will try that.