[dlh1457]

MB K7541GX
Sempron 2200+ Processor
256 MB
40gig HD
Onboard Modem & LAN
LG 4521B Combo Drive, CDRW.DVD

The problem is with the combo drive, I didn't get a driver for it and the company I bought the computer from told me to go to the Manufacturers page to get it. All they have are Firmware downloads and I have been told that to do that make sure that no other device is on the IDE. The Primary IDE has the HD as the master and the combo drive as a slave and I need to make the combo drive the master of the secondary IDE. But it is not installed according to my setup and I don't know how to do that, can anyone help me with this? Thank you so much....dlh1457

[SICS]

Hi and welcome to the community!

You shouldn't need any driver for the combo drive, as All version of Windows will support it. What the firmware will do is update the software inside the combo drive, this usually corrects burning issues, and allows you to have more compatibilty with media.

If you would like to put the combo drive on it's own bus follow these steps:

1. Open your computer
2. You may need to take out the combo drive, as you will have to change the little jumper on the back of the drive to 'Master'

3. You will see a open IDE slot on the motherboard right next to where the hard drive plugs into, this is usually blue or white, but sometimes can be black, you will most likely need another IDE cable.

4. Using a different IDE cable plug one end into the combo drive (You'll have to remove the cable that's pluged into it now) and plug one end into the open IDE Slot.

5. Put the cover back on the computer, and restart your machine. You should now have your hard drive as master on IDE 1 and your combo drive as master on IDE 2.

[dlh1457]

Thanks so much, that was easy, to bad everything can't be that easy.
dlh1457

[dlh1457]

OK, I have another question then. Is it alright to download the Firmware, when I loaded Direct CD it says that there is no supported device, does that mean that it won't work with that drive?