Need some help, Dvd Drive not showing on Desktop.

Ripper76 · #1 06-28-2009, 09:21 PM

Hello everyone,

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.

InteliMacPro · #2 06-28-2009, 10:33 PM

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?

Ripper76 · #3 06-28-2009, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by InteliMacPro

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?

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.

InteliMacPro · #4 06-28-2009, 11:22 PM

Did you look under "Disk Burning" in system profiler? Or maybe it's not a dvd-r drive...

Ripper76 · #5 06-28-2009, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by InteliMacPro

Did 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.

InteliMacPro · #6 06-28-2009, 11:46 PM

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?

Ripper76 · #7 06-28-2009, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by InteliMacPro

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?

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.

InteliMacPro · #8 06-29-2009, 12:01 AM

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.