Want to Disable Old CD Drive, Can't Remove It

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Hello, my computer is rather old. Running Windows 8.1 though. However, I have an old LG CD-RW drive in my tower, as well as a DVD-RW. The CD drive makes noises when there are CDs in it, but the problem comes in is the fact... drives are set as old IDE. And the HDD is a Sata 3GB/s HDD (It's only 500GB).

Complicating things is the fact the cable is daisy chained between the DVD and CD drives... Basically I dunno if I can remove the CD Drive without disabling the DVD in the process. Also I don't have the cover plate for that slot.

How would I disable the old CD drive? And further more, would it have an effect on my boot speeds?
 

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How would I disable the old CD drive? And further more, would it have an effect on my boot speeds?
All you need is to disconnect the flat ribbon cable and the power connected to the CD drive and no, it would not have any effect on boot speed.
 

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How would I disable the old CD drive? And further more, would it have an effect on my boot speeds?
All you need is to disconnect the flat ribbon cable and the power connected to the CD drive and no, it would not have any effect on boot speed.
For reals? That's all?
Huh, it's just since its a really old standard that I keep thinking that the top drive will NEED the power from the CD Drive.
 

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He told you right. Just try it, not like anything will blow up. :)
 

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If you don't also disconnect the data cable the bootup process [BIOS] will look for it. If you don't plug in a replacement you might get an error in the boot sequence unless you also disable that drive in the BIOS. Windows reads the BIOS to determine what resources it has to work with. On older computers the data cable is usually about 1.5" to 2" wide with 3 plugs, one for the motherboard, the other end for the Master drive and the middle one for the Slave drive. I'd make sure the working drive is on the end plug.
 

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Are we talking 486 days here? Don't think he'd be running 8.1 on it.
 

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The 40-pin, or 80-conductor, data cable for PATA drives was common on 386 computers and up until just a few years ago and one or maybe two sockets for it may be present on modern day computers even though there will be 2 to 4, 6, or 8 SATA ports on the motherboard. The only late-model computers I haven't seen those sockets on have been the SFF/Small Form Factor machines.
 

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I remember when our process engineering department got its first 486 "workstation". It was a 486-25 with 4 mb of memory and a 120 mb hard disk. The company I worked for (that started in a small garage) made and sold the computer. It was a tower system. The year was 1991 and the list price was $ 15,000. I think it ran Windows 3.0 or 3.1.

Most of our desktop computers were 386-16 computers with 1 or 2 mb of memory and 40 mb hard disks. How far we have come.
 

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The 40-pin, or 80-conductor, data cable for PATA drives was common on 386 computers and up until just a few years ago and one or maybe two sockets for it may be present on modern day computers even though there will be 2 to 4, 6, or 8 SATA ports on the motherboard. The only late-model computers I haven't seen those sockets on have been the SFF/Small Form Factor machines.

I admit, I haven't seen the old stuff for awhile. I tend to move on quickly. You obviously know more about the generational steps. Just surprised to see it still being used. You need to take over now. :)
 

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For reals? That's all?
Huh, it's just since its a really old standard that I keep thinking that the top drive will NEED the power from the CD Drive.
Each device is getting its own power from a 4-pin molex type connector (Yellow=12V, Red=5V, the other 2 are ground). On second thought, you only need to disconnect the power from the CD. If there's no power feeding to the CD then BIOS won't even see it.

@Berton
FYI, MASTER/SLAVE relationship is physically setup via a jumper on the IDE type CD/DVD/HD. It has nothing to do with whether you connect to the first or second connector, it is a straight thru cable after all.
 

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Holy cow, the thread freaking exploding.

But yeah. Running Windows 8.1 on an ASUS P7P55D-E Deluxe.

DVD and CD Drive are connected together with an ASUS CD-ROM Drive Cable. The CD Drive is the first one on the line and then the DVD Drive is after that, since its intended for two drives and they both connect to the motherboard. Same deal with the power connectors which might be 4 pin connectors? Oh well, guess I can try tomorrow and see what happens.
 

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    ASUS P7P55D-E Deluxe
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    2x2 Corsair Vengence 1600MHz @ 1333MHz
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Holy cow, the thread freaking exploding.

But yeah. Running Windows 8.1 on an ASUS P7P55D-E Deluxe.

DVD and CD Drive are connected together with an ASUS CD-ROM Drive Cable. The CD Drive is the first one on the line and then the DVD Drive is after that, since its intended for two drives and they both connect to the motherboard. Same deal with the power connectors which might be 4 pin connectors? Oh well, guess I can try tomorrow and see what happens.

I'm running the same MB with win 8.1.1 no IDE or PATA cables however after all this board has 2 SATA 3 6 GB ports, Trying to think back as two whether you will need to change the jumpers on the back side of the DVD or CD I lost track of which one you want to get rid of and the other to Keep. If I remember right there use to be a label that showed you which pins to use for Master or Slave. I would just pull it out and put anything in the hole old sock or what ever.
 

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Holy cow, the thread freaking exploding.

But yeah. Running Windows 8.1 on an ASUS P7P55D-E Deluxe.

DVD and CD Drive are connected together with an ASUS CD-ROM Drive Cable. The CD Drive is the first one on the line and then the DVD Drive is after that, since its intended for two drives and they both connect to the motherboard. Same deal with the power connectors which might be 4 pin connectors? Oh well, guess I can try tomorrow and see what happens.

I'm running the same MB with win 8.1.1 no IDE or PATA cables however after all this board has 2 SATA 3 6 GB ports, Trying to think back as two whether you will need to change the jumpers on the back side of the DVD or CD I lost track of which one you want to get rid of and the other to Keep. If I remember right there use to be a label that showed you which pins to use for Master or Slave. I would just pull it out and put anything in the hole old sock or what ever.
Oh god the Jumpers. Whelp time to find a set of tweezers then.

Looking in the Device Manager...

CD Drive is an LG CD-RW CED-8080B and the DVD Drive is a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D if that gives any guide on the specs and age of the drives.
EDIT:

If this helps more...
The location data for the Drives.

CD Drive is
Location 1 (Channel 1, Target 1, Lun 0)
DVD Drive is
Location 0 (Channel 1, Target 0, Lun 0)
HDD is
Location 0 (Channel 0, Target 0, Lun 0)
 
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I have 2 - 3 year old MB that has one PATA port but also Serial and Parallel ports and a Floppy port too. One of main reasons I'm going to keep it as long as possible. I have uses for all of them.
 

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For reals? That's all?
Huh, it's just since its a really old standard that I keep thinking that the top drive will NEED the power from the CD Drive.
Each device is getting its own power from a 4-pin molex type connector (Yellow=12V, Red=5V, the other 2 are ground). On second thought, you only need to disconnect the power from the CD. If there's no power feeding to the CD then BIOS won't even see it.

@Berton
FYI, MASTER/SLAVE relationship is physically setup via a jumper on the IDE type CD/DVD/HD. It has nothing to do with whether you connect to the first or second connector, it is a straight thru cable after all.
Except in the case both drives are set to CS (Cable Select) in which case drive at the end of the cable is automatically Master.
Speaking about old drives, anybody remembers old MFM and BFI drives as well as CD-ROMs runing of dedicated controllers, my first was running of Creative Sound Blaster.
 

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Holy cow, the thread freaking exploding.

But yeah. Running Windows 8.1 on an ASUS P7P55D-E Deluxe.

DVD and CD Drive are connected together with an ASUS CD-ROM Drive Cable. The CD Drive is the first one on the line and then the DVD Drive is after that, since its intended for two drives and they both connect to the motherboard. Same deal with the power connectors which might be 4 pin connectors? Oh well, guess I can try tomorrow and see what happens.

I'm running the same MB with win 8.1.1 no IDE or PATA cables however after all this board has 2 SATA 3 6 GB ports, Trying to think back as two whether you will need to change the jumpers on the back side of the DVD or CD I lost track of which one you want to get rid of and the other to Keep. If I remember right there use to be a label that showed you which pins to use for Master or Slave. I would just pull it out and put anything in the hole old sock or what ever.
Oh god the Jumpers. Whelp time to find a set of tweezers then.

Looking in the Device Manager...

CD Drive is an LG CD-RW CED-8080B and the DVD Drive is a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D if that gives any guide on the specs and age of the drives.
EDIT:

If this helps more...
The location data for the Drives.

CD Drive is
Location 1 (Channel 1, Target 1, Lun 0)
DVD Drive is
Location 0 (Channel 1, Target 0, Lun 0)
HDD is
Location 0 (Channel 0, Target 0, Lun 0)

Sorry none of that means anything to me. Just pull them out its only a couple of screw, I'm pretty sure there will a label that tells you which pins are for master. So set the one you want to keep as master and just don't hook up the other one.
 

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If the IDE cable is a 40 wire 40 pin, setting the jumpers to CS will not work, you have to use master slave with those old cables. If its an 80 wire 40 pin IDE cable, you can use CS for both drives, or set one as master and one as slave. When CS is used the master is the drive on the end of the cable and the slave is the drive on the middle connector. A single drive does not have to be jumpered as master to work all by itself. I've never had to switch one when unplugging another drive on the same cable. Switch the jumper if you want, but you shouldn't have to for it to work OK.
The PC will look for the drives during the POST. If the drive is unplugged its entry just disappears from the device list in the BIOS. Unplugging an optical drive should not cause a BIOS error message. Not unless your only Boot option set is to the optical drive and there is no other optical drive connected.
 

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This is from the manual on the Pioneer site:
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Just make sure the DVD drive is not jumpered as SL (Slave), if it is, then you need to jumper it as MA (Master) or (CS) Cable Select.
 

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If the IDE cable is a 40 wire 40 pin, setting the jumpers to CS will not work, you have to use master slave with those old cables. If its an 80 wire 40 pin IDE cable, you can use CS for both drives, or set one as master and one as slave. When CS is used the master is the drive on the end of the cable and the slave is the drive on the middle connector. A single drive does not have to be jumpered as master to work all by itself. I've never had to switch one when unplugging another drive on the same cable. Switch the jumper if you want, but you shouldn't have to for it to work OK.
The PC will look for the drives during the POST. If the drive is unplugged its entry just disappears from the device list in the BIOS. Unplugging an optical drive should not cause a BIOS error message. Not unless your only Boot option set is to the optical drive and there is no other optical drive connected.

Thanks for the great explanation I have forgotten all that.
 

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If you leave the unused cd drive in, at least open the tray, makes a nice cupholder.... LOL
 

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