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02-23-2003, 05:34 PM
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IDE probs now unable to see CD
Not really sure what happened, but I lost my CD rom drive.
I looked in my system properties and there are 2 exclamation points beside the harddisk controllers. I was just trying to add another disk when it wouldn't recognize it. My Cdrom drive doesn't show up in system properties at all. And drives are in MSDOS compatability mode. How do I fix? I want to find out if there is an easy fix before I proceed. |
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02-23-2003, 08:41 PM
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Hi Jade
You mention you were adding an extra hard drive. Did it install OK? (If not, is it still attached to an IDE cable?) Try entering your Bios Setup screens (press the key mentioned in the banner displayed at startup "Press F1 [or DEL or F10 ,etc.] to enter Setup"). Make sure that the IDE devices are set to "Auto". If any are set to "None", then whatever is connected to that will not be detected. If you changed the IDE cable that the CD drive was on, you may need to change the jumpers in the back of the drive. If it shares a cable with a hard drive, it probably need to be jumpered either "Slave" or "Cable Select". If it is all alone on a cable, it probably needs to be jumpered "Master". To get your IDE controllers happy again, boot into Safe Mode, remove the controllers in Device Manager, and reboot. Windows should re-detect them during the restart (you might need your nVidia drivers disk handy) Let us know if you need more help. . . . Gary [p.s. ....Hi Dan, looks like we were doing simultaneous typing] Last edited by GaryRouth; 02-23-2003 at 08:44 PM. |
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02-23-2003, 08:41 PM
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one thing you could try:
reinstall drivers for the hardware with !'s |
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02-23-2003, 10:05 PM
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Thx for the reply.
No the disk was given to me to check if it was okay. I assume it is bad. I did set to auto in the bios for all disk. I did toggle jumper settings between master\slave or CS on both. Now I remember the reboot into safe mode and remove drivers. If I recall correctly it introduced some errors last time. I will try again and see if it works. And re-installing the HD's didn't work thx. I will try removing the drives in safe mode and see what's up. |
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02-23-2003, 10:06 PM
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I've had this problem multiple times on several systems. All you need to do is remove the first item under "Hard Disk Controllers" in the Device Manager; it should be your "primary disk controller". Reboot and check to see if the error has cleared.
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02-23-2003, 10:20 PM
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Like forceflow points out, be sure to remove the controllers - not the drive. If Windows doesn't install the nVidia IDE driver, you'll need to run the setup for it manually. I don't think that the builtin Windows IDE drivers will do for an nforce board.
. . . Gary [and doublecheck your jumpers] |
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02-23-2003, 10:23 PM
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