DVD drive help for Dell Dimension 3000

Which is it a Dell 3000 or Dell 1100 ?

The jumper settings on the rear of the DVD drive; set the jumpers to "cable select" mode (if you are uncertain how to set the jumpers, check the documentation that came with your drive or look for a diagram printed on the drive itself). Insert your DVD drive into the selected drive bay and connect the IDE and power cables. Use the screws that came packaged with the drive to secure the component to the drive bay.

Dell Dimension 3000 Service Manual
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3000/en/SM/sm.EXE Dell Dimension 3000 Users Guide http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3000/en/OM/j6758A04.pdf

Check BIOS.It must show there first.

check the jumpers are on master slave or both on CS Cable Select

It is not difficult to change cd/dvd drive.
Open cpu cabinet.
Then remove icd cable and power cable from cd/dvd drive.
Then remove screws of old cd/dvd drive.
Then you can pull it from cabinet from front side.
Then put your new cd/dvd drive into it's position then lock it with screws.
Then connect ide cable from motherboard and power cable to drive.
Then you can use it.
If you connect to drive with 1 ide cable means if you connect harddrive and cd/dvd drive with 1 cable then set harddrive as master and cd/dvd rom as slave you can set it slave with jumper settings.
It is in back side of cd/dvd drive.
There is instruction how to slave it with jumper.
Let me know if you need further assistance.
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hi go to start, settings, control panel, click on sound and audio devices. on the volume tab locate properties and click on it. now another box will appear look for cd volume and adujst it whist playing a cd until the sound is less distorted. please rate me if this solves you problem.

CD-ROMs dont play dvd becuase they are not designed to read dvd.

If a dvd drive for your model is not available, you can buy an external usb dvd drive.
That should solve your problem

You can download the drivers from dell website, download.com, and many other sites. Download, then double click on them to install them. Once installed, reset pc.

Close all the burning softwares and check if its working, if not try to flash the chipset for the drive, this would be very much available in the support site, u can download and run the same in the system.

ok
i can try to help
i think u can remove the from panel
for that u will have some locks or screews remove that
then u can fix ur drive on the top panel
let me know how it is
if possible

yes you should be able to play CD on the DVD reader.
Dimension 2400 have drive slide mounted on the side of the hard drive, cd drive and floppy. they are different for each device. you need the 2 side mount for the dvd. in order to mount them in the Dell.
the drive is inserted from the inside of the box toward the front. The front panel will prevent the device from pop out.
yes, 3 party DVD, CD drive will be shorter and fater that what Dell porvide, but it will work, al long as the opening is accessable.
get the HP DVD driver.