Last spring i purchased a "ASUS Light scribe" burner for my old desktop. The machine had never had any SATA bus driven equipment before but the mother board had a SATA connector and BElarc Advisor states that I have a "VIA SATA RAID Controller" bus adapter on board. So I bought it and I installed it last spring and I THINK that i tested it before shutting down. Then I did shut down and went away for 5 months. Now I am back and fired up my machine and the SATA driven burner is not working . The computer does not recognize that it is even there. If I go to device manager it shows a SATA RAID controller with a yellow flag. If I try to update the driver it says I have the best available. The device manager also shows the existance of my other CD/DVD ROM But not the new burner. Now when I say that I THINK that I tested it, truthfully, I don't remember if I did or not . My memory is quite bad.

The machine is homebuilt with;
Mother Board: MSI MS-7047 1.00
Processor: 1.30 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
I am running Windows XP with SP-2
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 080011 11/05/2004

I am not quite sure what to try next. Anyone have any ideas??

Thanks for reading this, JIM Make sure that the SATA controller is enabled in the BIOS- the computer's battery might have petered out since you were away, meaning it would go back to the defaults. Most manufacturers disable the SATA controller by default.BC_Progarmmer Thank you for responding. I went into the BIOS and found that the SATA was already enabled. While I was there I did enable something called "on board LAN". Whatever that was. However, it did not cure the problem. I'm sitting here scratching my head. Maybe I will open up the machine and see if the SATA cable is still connected. Or maybe move the connection. I think there were two there. Anyway, thanks again. Let me KNOW if you think of anything else.,,,JIMTo all interested parties;
Well, I didn't fix the problem but I went to the ASUS website and found out that there are many many other buyers of the ASUS DRW-2014L1T DVD R/RW DRIVE units that are having the same problem with minor variations. So, even tho I feel taken, I don;t feel alone. Thank you all for reading and trying to help, JIMJim,
SATA is great for a hard drive, but I don't see the point of having SATA on a CD/DVD burner. SATA is capable of transferring data WAY FASTER than a CD drive runs, either reading or writing.
IDE is more than satisfactory for a DVD burner.

On that mobo, however, you SHOULD be running a SATA hard drive.
All SATA hard drives on the store shelves today are SATA2.....twice as fast as SATA(1).
A retail SATA drive will usually COME with the SATA1 jumper in place on the back of the drive for compatibility with older motherboards.
To use the drive on a SATA2 mobo, the jumper will have to be removed or the mobo won't even see the drive.

Good Luck to you,
The Shadow Thank you, SHADOW; I will remember that next time I buy a hard drive. Also, I wish I had known that about DVD burnere speeds vs SATA spd when I orderes the drive. Should have been able to figure that out meself but?? ? Anyways, Thank you for the response. All be well with you, JIM You didn't really ask it as a question- but the On-board LAN option was an built-in ethernet.

Also: Did Shadows advice allow you to get things working?Jim,
When you're asking for help with a piece of hardware, it's a good idea to give every possible piece of information about that device, like the Make and Model Number, in the original POST.
I see now that you did give the info in a subsequent post.
I looked up the drive but only saw that it was SATA....that's all.

It may not be applicable to a SATA DVD burner, but with SATA hard drives there are two versions....... SATA 1 and SATA 2.

I just ran into a problem with this today, when I tried to install two Maxtor SATA2 drives on my OLD computer with a SATA(1) compatible motherboard.

The motherboard refused to even See the two drives.
I was totally confused, till I noticed the little jumper on the back of the Maxtor drive that I already had installed in the system.

Then I finally remembered, that when a SATA2 drive is connected to a SATA1 mobo, you must have a jumper on the correct two pins on the back of the drive or the mobo will never see it. Naturally, the little jumpers are very tiny, not even half the size of regular motherboard jumpers. But not to WORRY.....last year I picked up a bag of 10 of those little jumpers at a computer show. I installed a jumper on each of the two drives and VOILA, now my old Asrock motherboard sees the drives just fine.

So I'm of course sitting here wondering if SATA DVD burners have jumpers like that.
If it's a SATA2 device and your mobo is only SATA1, that is probably the problem.
I'd research that drive, but you failed to give us the model number.

You need to determine whether the mobo and DVD drive are the same, SATA wise.

Cheers Mate!
The Shadow SHADOW and BC_PROGRAMMER OK I've learned something here. When I get a round tuit I will open up my machine again and check the DVD burner for jumpers or places to put jumpers. Having already paid for it, I would like to use it in order to get things going again. If not, I will re-install the old slooow burner until I buy something else. Like you said, I really don't need SATA speed on the burner data. I will let you know how I make out. I am a little reluctant to open it up. My hands are getting a little shakey and I don't see too well any more, and I get tired really easy, especially when I get frusrtated. Which seems to be often with this machine. I keep messing with it though as I feel it helps keep my brain active. Maybe I am fooling myself. However, I want to thank all of you guys who try to help me out. This forum has been a real blessing. Thanks again and God Bless, JIMJim,
I'd probably be shaky about getting into a PC too, if it were not for the fact that I've been doing this stuff for 28 years and it's just second nature to me.
But, I admit, this SATA1 vs SATA2 thing thru me for a loop, for a few minutes anyway.

I wish you were nearby, so I could go over it with you and see what we together could figure out. The key may even lay in the motherboard Bios and how it deals with SATA devices. I'm confident that you'll get it to WORK, eventually. Don't give up!

Cheers Mate!
The Shadow TO SHADOW and BC_PROGRAMMER Well I am sorry to be so late in responding. I had a pile of other stuff to take care of. I finally got the CD/DVD burner working. I acquired an adapter that would convert a SATA (or IDE) device to USB and it worked perectly so I put it back into my machine, reconnected the cables, unistalled the software and then re-installed it and it worked. I am feeling very stupid about the whole thing but very happy to have it working. Thats again for your concern and all of your help. JIM

P.S. Now I have another problem regarding drive space so I am posting a new thread. Tks agn