okay, well i can't take a picture because my sister has the camera somewhere, have to ask her when she gets back tonight. But, i did open up the case and noticed there are only two cables going into the burner, one is the power cable, the other is that flat ribbon
The small color band on the flat ribbon is not in the #1 pin, it is right next to the power cable hole. In your picture above you circled the #1 pin being on the far left, mine is on the far right. I unplugged it and checked if it could be rotated around so the color band could be moved to the far left like in your picture, but it can't be.....the pins would not line up right if i did.
I can see the jumper holes on the back, and there is nothing in them. Is there a way that i could find out if it is a slave or master drive, maybe some program or utility that would tell me, maybe something in BIOS?
If you look online for my model number, you'll notice all the first links on google are people asking questions about my burner, saying "it only reads discs, it won't burn at all" so i guess this model must be notorious for not working.
Either it can be fixed, or i could just pick up another one at Frys Electronics for 40 bucks, and it would come with lightscribe.