DVD drive won't work

[Poda]

My DVD drive recently broke, so I got a new one. The BIOS detected it ok and then XP detected it, but put a disk drive with a red question by it in Windows Explorer. So, I restarted. From that point on, the bios had trouble detecting it fast. Instead, it would say it found the dvd drive, but it would sit there for like 1 minute before starting to load XP. When I checked in the bios settings, all the vendor information was garbled for the dvd drive. XP no longer detects it either. So, I bought another dvd drive, and it started the same way, but now has the same issue as the previous one. There's no way 2 dvd drives in a row are messed up. I updated my bios, still no luck. Tried different cables too. Is it possible my sata connectors are messed up somehow?

 

[racerx5410]

Make sure your SATA controller has the most up to date drivers. If that doesn't work, try plugging in the drive to another SATA port. Finally, if you have a known good DVD drive hanging around, install that and see if it works. Hope this helps.

 

[RebateMonger]

You're running out of things. Do you have another PC to try these drives in?