Cyberdrive cdrw not recognised at post

[morven]

I have been building a computer from scratch. I cannot get my computer to recognise that I have a cyberdrive cdrw. It does not power up at post. However, if I take out the IDE cable leaving the power cable in, it receives power as i can open the tray. Also it is recognised in my other computer so the drive itself is not faulty.
I have tried it in all the master/slave cominations I can think of. (My Pioneer dvd works on the secondary ide channel, but I have taken that out while I tried to get the computer to recognise the cdrw.) Something is obviously happening as when the cdrw is connected it slows the computer down at power-up and it takes ages to get to the Windows 98 splash screen (disconnected it whizzes through)
I have tried to auto detect in the bios.
I have run out of ideas.
I have a ecs k7s6a motherboard with athlon 1800 and a maxtor 40gb harddrive set as primary master
Please help

 

[stuartd]

1. Have you got the IDE cable the right way round in the drive?
2. Have you tried in on a channel on its own to prove it works at all?
3. Use the know working DVD IDE cable on a channel of it's own.
4. Set IDE channels to AUTO
5. Check for bent pins in the connector on the drive
6. Can't think of any more - return to supplier

 

[morven]

thanks stuartd. 1)I have checked the cable is the right way round. 2)I have tested the channel 3)I have tried several differnt 40 and 80 ide connectors 4)I have set the IDE channels to auto 5) checked for bent pins.

I know it isn't faulty because it is recognised and loads into my older computer.

I have tried using it through a promise ultra 100 card on the new motherboard too. It won't recognise it either!

Thanks again for your help. I will struggle on %-)