My optical drive will not read disks

My optical drive will not read disks

i just built my computer and when i put the windows installation disk in i noticed the optical drive would not read disks this is the third optical drive i have tried none of them will read disks the first one died on another pc i know because i used it on my new pc build the second one opened closed and the light turned on but would not read disks the same with the third one i hooked the power supply up to them and i connected the sata cable to them and to the sata port on the motherboard and none of the optical drives will read disks and i was in the bios and saw that it detected the optical drives but im still faced with the problem that it will not read disks all of the optical drives i have tried are the same type an lg gh24nsc0b oem so is there anything more i can do?

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Guest [Entry]

"Hi Chris,

Just verifying. Have you connected your ODD to Sata port 5 and selected the BIOS setting for this port to IDE?

Here are two images from the User Manual.

Update (09/12/2016)

Hi Chris,

An ODD is an Optical Disc Drive.

You need to connect the ODD Sata cable to Sata port No.5 on the motherboard. Here is an image

Then you need to go into BIOS and set Sata port 5 to IDE. Leave the HDD set to AHCI. Don't forget to save your changes in BIOS."

Guest [Entry]

"Can you confirm that windows is registering the drive?

Also make sure that you don't have it assigned to a RAID. A customer brought me a computer he bought from a friend that was having this same issue, and the drive was assigned to RAID 1 rendering the drive inoperable, and in most cases looked like the drive wasn't even there, even though it showed up in BIOS."