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I have bought an assembled PC from a shop which
supplied motherboard ASUS P5KPL AM-PS

They have supplied only one DVD rom drive but i want to have two different Dvd rom drives.They say this motherboard does not have option to fix two Dvd rom drives (cd drives) at one time.
Is it correct???

I have always used two cd drives at a time in all my pentium 3 and pentium 4 comupters i have used in past.


My system Windows Xp professional
Motherboard ASUS P5KPL AM-PS
Pentium(R)Dual core Cpu
E5200 @ 2.5 GHZ
1 Gb ram

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Short answer: the board will accept two IDE (PATA) optical drives — the P5KPL‑AM/PS has one 40‑pin onboard IDE connector (so up to two devices on that cable) plus four SATA ports. The user manual shows the supplied Ultra DMA ribbon has three plugs (blue/black/gray) and explains the master/slave or cable‑select jumper rules. (manualmachine.com)

Practical hookup (safe, step‑by‑step): power down and unplug; use the supplied 80‑conductor UltraDMA ribbon (blue end to the motherboard). Put one drive at the cable end and the other on the middle connector. Either set one drive’s jumper to Master and the other to Slave, or set both to Cable‑Select (if you choose CS, both drives must have CS jumpers). Attach Molex power to each drive, boot to BIOS and confirm both drives are detected. If a drive is not seen, recheck jumpers, swap cable positions (to rule out a bad cable), and try each drive alone. (manualmachine.com)

Why Device Manager may confuse you: Windows can show multiple “Primary/Secondary” channels depending on drivers and chipset, so don’t rely on Device Manager alone — check BIOS first to confirm hardware detection. If the system already uses an IDE hard disk and you need three PATA devices, you can’t put three devices on a single IDE connector; use one of the board’s SATA ports for a drive, buy a SATA optical drive, or add a PCI/PCIe SATA (or IDE) controller card to get more ports. (flylib.com) (exxactcorp.com)

Notes tied to the thread: and were right that cable and jumper settings are the usual fix — just follow the cable‑color/jumper mapping in the manual. If a drive still disappears during Windows setup (as reported), double‑check power, try one drive at a time, and confirm BIOS sees the drive before troubleshooting Windows.

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Member Avatar for freshfitz

Are you using sata or ide. If you use IDE just link the 2 with the same ribbon cable plug one end into the motherboard then the cable should have 2 more connectors one for each cd/dvd whatever. Make sure slave and primary are turned on in the bios for that pata port on the motherboard then put your hard drive on the other pata port.

Member Avatar for freshfitz

After looking at the specs for that motherboard it looks like it only has 1 pata port if you have 3 ide devices you will have to upgrade one to an sata then link the 2 ide to the pata port then the 3rd on one of the sata channels

Member Avatar for Debodinno

I am not using sata but IDE.

When i open the Device manager and click
IDE Ata Atapi controller
i find 2 primary channel and 2 secondary channels.

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I have no knowledge of PC hardware but someone told me this motherboard can be used to fix more than two cdrom drives.

Member Avatar for freshfitz

Connect the samsung hard disk to Primary IDE and the 2 cd/dvd rom drives to secondary IDE. The primary IDE port on the motherboard should be blue. you should also have jumpers on the drives they should be set to primary and secondary

Member Avatar for jamesdin

I have bought an assembled PC from a shop which
supplied motherboard ASUS P5KPL AM-PS

They have supplied only one DVD rom drive but i want to have two different Dvd rom drives.They say this motherboard does not have option to fix two Dvd rom drives (cd drives) at one time.
Is it correct???

I have always used two cd drives at a time in all my pentium 3 and pentium 4 comupters i have used in past.


My system Windows Xp professional
Motherboard ASUS P5KPL AM-PS
Pentium(R)Dual core Cpu
E5200 @ 2.5 GHZ
1 Gb ram

pls. try this: if you are using the ide cable from asus you just set your jumper setting to cable select if not you should be set your 2cd/dvd to slave then connect it to secondary port

Member Avatar for ademoo

what happen is dat my pc can not see cd rom in the setup page during the installation process it only display the primary. What happen pls

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