Need some help, Dvd Drive not showing on Desktop.
I have a problem, my DVD drive doesn't seem to be working once am on the desktop. The installation went perfectly and everything was smooth. But when I put in a disc; no icon appears on the desktop. I used the IPC Universal pp5-final…
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I have a problem, my DVD drive doesn't seem to be working once am on the desktop. The installation went perfectly and everything was smooth. But when I put in a disc; no icon appears on the desktop.
I used the IPC Universal pp5-final version, I don't understand why there is no DVD drive, the install worked great.
Do I have to enable it some place? or do something to get the drive to read? Any help would be wonderful.
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@InteliMacProyou could try checking your cd/dvd settings in System Preferences. If everything's set to Ignore nothing would happen when you put a disk in. Is it showing up in System Profiler?
Thank you for replying. I just checked System Profiler, but it doesn't show any dvd drive installed. I just used this ide dvd to install everything so I know it working.
Am at a loss, any ideas would be great. :-|
@InteliMacProDid you look under "Disk Burning" in system profiler? Or maybe it's not a dvd-r drive...
Nope, it shows nothing there either. It just states, if you have a drive; please make sure its properly connected.
@InteliMacProI'm assuming you did this, but you didn't mention whether you checked the CD/DVD settings in System Prefs. Barring that, perhaps there's a kext built in to the iPC disc that allowed it to recognize your drive that you didn't install on your system?
Yep, I have done all that. What kind of Kext would I have to install off the ipc disc? I will load it up and check it out. It's worth a shot.
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you could try checking your cd/dvd settings in System Preferences. If everything's set to Ignore nothing would happen when you put a disk in. Is it showing up in System Profiler?
Did you look under "Disk Burning" in system profiler? Or maybe it's not a dvd-r drive...
I'm assuming you did this, but you didn't mention whether you checked the CD/DVD settings in System Prefs. Barring that, perhaps there's a kext built in to the iPC disc that allowed it to recognize your drive that you didn't install on your system?
That's impossible to know without knowing your hardware and what kexts you installed Also, did you remember to boot with the -f flag on your initial restart after installation? Not sure it would matter but just a thought.
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