UJ-830B won't recognise on acer

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#1

Hi, I have just purchased a second hand Panasonic UJ-830B DVDRW Drive. I installed it into my acer travelmate 240 laptop but it will not recognise in the bios or in windows. A drive comes up in windows but says please insert a disk.

Thinkin the drive was faulty I installed it in my Acer Centrino and it worked a treat? Is there a problem with my acer 240? It currently has a CDRW which works fine.

Please Help!

Thanks

#2

Probably master/slave settings conflict on your Acer 240.

Harddisc and UJ-830B set to same setting. One must be master and other slave.

#3

Ahh right makes sense! I take it its easier to change hard drive or cdrom? My hd is master. Thanks

#4

I don’t think it’s easy to change master/slave setting at the UJ-830B. Try to change the harddisc to slave if you can.

#5

Right i tried removing my hard drive and just leaving cdrom in. It still does not appear in the bios? Is this strange? Or should i try changing the hard disk to slave and try alongside each other? Thanks

#6

Update: I tried changing my toshiba drive to slave and the conputer will not recognise my drive? What is going on? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

#7

Your UJ-830B don’t seem to be compatible with the Acer 240.

#8

I have now tried it in a friends centrino. It will not detect in the bios but will function in windows? Strange?

Are there bios updates for my machine available to make it work or am i going to have to fork out for another burner?

Thanks

#9

Acer Travelmate 240. http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/tm_240.html

#10

Cannot get the bios updates to work. I tried it in windows and it said power eeror. I am really pulling my hair out on this one. Why would they recognise in windows on the other laptop but not in bios or boot with a bootdisk in???

Thanks in advance

#11

I have now updated the bios but still wont read DVDRW. Please Help!

#12

Check master/slave status in bios.

Check with working cdrw first and change cdrw to dvdrw and check bios again.

#13

The current CDRW is master IDE1

DVDRW wont read in bios? Is there any other way of checking? Thanks

#14

What can I say.

#15

I’m stumped lol!

Can i maybe change it from master to slave or vise versa? Only Promlem is i dont know how. Cheers, Ian

#16

You have to have the correct OEM Acer firmware or it will never work.