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05-30-2003, 08:28 AM
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Mobo components
I have a question about what slots are used for on a mobo. It looks something like this:
__________________IDE2 __________________IDE1 _________________FDD1 -----This is the one that I need to know about. What is it for? I thought it was for a floppy but I guess I'm wrong. I thought that I could add up to 4 DVD, CD ROMSs and so forth but if I only have 1 slot how is that possible. The reason I'm asking is because I just got 2 new devices. A DVDRW A CDRW However they appear to be running really slow and the CDRW is 52xs and the one I had in here was 16x. Quite a difference. I have them on the same ribbon. I have the master slave set up properly because they both work. Also neither one auto starts. I tried to play a music CD but could not get either of them to play it. Thank you for your help. Jog |
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05-30-2003, 10:31 AM
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What OS are you using? IDE1 and IDE2 are used for connecting IDE devices such as hard drives and optical drives. The FDD socket is indeed for connecting a floppy drive but it uses a slightly different ribbon cable than IDE drives. Are you having a problem installing a floppy drive? Typically you put the two optical drives together on IDE2 and save IDE1 for your hard drives.
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05-30-2003, 10:55 AM
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Hi,
I just thought that if I were able to put the two new drives on their own ribbons that maybe they would run better. I am running: K7SEM mobo AMD athlon (tm)----1.15GHz 960 MB Ram Win.XP Pro Thanks, Jog |
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05-30-2003, 12:56 PM
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On their own cables is a very good idea. If the two optical drives are messed up, switch their relationship on the same cable. Make the slave master and the master a slave. Then see if everything works out. You mighjt also try cable select on both.
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05-30-2003, 07:24 PM
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I did a Belarc check on my system and I now have this:
Generic STEALTH DVD SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive] I know it's not a physical device nor do I know where it came from or how to get riid of it. Help! |
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05-30-2003, 10:27 PM
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Computer Slave
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Do you have any programs installed or running that create virtual drives on your computer? If so uninstalling that program would get rid of that I believe.
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05-31-2003, 07:22 AM
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I have no idea! lol. I downloaded some programs like Super DVD to try and make up my mind which one would work for what I want to do. I want to take my old VHS tapes and convert them to DVD and some claimed they could do it. Well to make a long story short I didn't find one and now whenever I try to use my DVD-R-RW or even my CD-RW software this thing pops up and tell me to put the proper disk in it. I can't put a disk in something that is not there lol. I thought I had uninstalled all the crap I downloaded. How can I fix this?
Thanks Jo |
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05-31-2003, 07:54 AM
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do you have an Nforce2 board?
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05-31-2003, 10:34 AM
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No I have an:
K7SEM mobo |
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06-01-2003, 03:46 AM
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Have you install Daemon Tools before?This software will create a virtual DVD drive named just like that.
I have a 52x cd-rom but in the CD burning software it just gave me 16x limit.I guess I don't understand WindowsXPpro 
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06-01-2003, 08:16 AM
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Yep I do have it installed. I have XP but there is so much that I don;t know. I don't think that I would put it on my pc again.
I have Nero software but I can't even get my 52 CD-RW to work and every time I try to use the DVD-RW I get a message that I'm not using the right kind of media in it. Jac |
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