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I added a SATA CD drive to my computer, but I connected it to the SATA raid port mistakenly. After I connected it, I switched on the computer system. A message appeared saying that there was no boot media, then I checked the bios, any one device cannot detect. What is the problem? It is a sata port in my mother board, an asus board.

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Most deceptive title ever. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 1 '11 at 4:57
Look in the BIOS for boot order and make sure that your CD/DVD-ROM drive is at the top. Also, make sure that the power connector is connected to it. – paradroid May 1 '11 at 4:57
@Paradroid boot order isn't really it 'cos it needn't be at the top. The boot order is only relevant for booting from it. Not to get it recognized. Though I suppose maybe.. the problem is it's booting from RAID but I don't know if that's a boot order thing.. – barlop May 1 '11 at 11:18
maybe it's worth you including the model of motherboard and a link to the manual.. and somebody will know what you should set in your BIOS and where to set it. – barlop May 1 '11 at 11:20
@paradroid I suppose his main thing may be that it's not looking to the hard drive to boot.. hence no bootable media. Or he's just using a new hard drive , windows not on it. no active partition. – barlop May 1 '11 at 11:22
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