Internal Blu-Ray Disappearing

[Feeterican]

I apologize now for my spell

 

This all started back when window 7 was released. I had a internal Blu-Ray burner connected to my EVGA 780i mobo using there black sata cables that were provided in the box  and after a month or two I noticed that the drive disappeared from "My Computer". I thought that the drive was dead so I looked it up on google and no one had posted anything about it. So I took my old DVD burner and plugged that in and worked fine and left it alone until I did another build. I built a new PC in 2011 using a P67 Sabertooth mobo, i7 2600 and I tossed in a new LG Blu-Ray burner and it worked for a few months and then again I lost the drive, it also disappeared during an install and also once while I was watching a movie, so I had to look into this and find out what was going on. At first I did the obvious and restarted and it showed up and worked for a little while then disappeared again, and so on. then I turned it off and plugged it into another port and it worked for about 2 weeks and again it disappeared, even switched out the cable with another black sata cable and again same thing. At this point I just wanted to tear my hair out. So again, I looked into this problem I looked it up on google, now I thought I was getting some where and so a lot of posts about this problem, finally I wasn't the only one with this issue. Everything that was posted didn't work at all, it kept disappearing. Finally found out what the problem was. It was the black sata cable that EVGA provided in the box from the mobo I used 2 of them and had the same problem. I switched it out with an old red sata 1 cable that you find in any store or when you got an old mobo that had sata one. I plugged that in and now it's been 6 months and have had no issue's what so ever. every time I go to use my internal Blu-Ray player, it's there.

 

I hope that this helps some people in the future if there having the same problem.

 

 

 

Eric aka Feeterican

[piplupgao]

Funny cause changing the sata cable would've been the first thing I replaced

[Feeterican]

Funny cause changing the sata cable would've been the first thing I replaced

well the cable was new and that didn't cross my mind right away and even when I did the first swap out nothing changed until I used the old sata 1 cable.

[MammothJerk]

i also had this problem with some old DTSOFT dvd-rw burner thingy.

i have to use some old ugly orange sata cable that i have lying around instead of the black ones included with the mobo.

[grayperview]

Could be upper and lower filters....this video will show you how to fix it, used to see this a lot.