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AFryia
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:06 am Post subject: No CD ROM |
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If a CD ROM is seen by the BIOS and identified correctly (model #) is there any way WinXP won't see it?
I have this situation and even the Device Manager does not see the CD ROM.
I have it connected to the IDE and jumper-ed as "master". All the HDD are SATA.
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WanMan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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Try cable-select.
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TheVerge
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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google it.. there is a registry key that can make it dissappear. load high something rather.
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AFryia
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:48 am Post subject: |
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I did the UPPER/LowerFilters Reg edit thing, no change.
Tried CSL (cable select), no change.
I can boot from the CD ROM. The problem is my XP disk is SP2 and I'm at SP3 so I can't perform a simple repair.
I've searched for new hardware and no go. I've disconnected the CD ROM booted up, shut down and reconnect, no go.
I'm stumped.
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WanMan
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Ok, so your hard drives are SATA, but this ROM drive is PATA, configured as Master. In the BIOS does it give you the option of how to treat the IDE? Sometimes it might allow you to treat it as a non-PATA device, but this may be a problem in XP. Was this ROM drive ever seen in XP on this computer?
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AFryia
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| WanMan wrote: | | Ok, so your hard drives are SATA, but this ROM drive is PATA, configured as Master. In the BIOS does it give you the option of how to treat the IDE? |
The IDE port is not called out specifically in the BIOS setup. I do have the option to set the;
"OnChip SATA Type"
- Native IDE
- RAID
- AHCI
I'm set to Native IDE
| WanMan wrote: | | Was this ROM drive ever seen in XP on this computer? |
YES after the initial SP2 load from scratch on this mother board and with the original mother board it always worked.
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AFryia
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:52 am Post subject: |
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Got it. Finally!!
BIOS setting to enable RAID/IDE, not that I'm using hardware RAID.
Then the 101 PS/2 keyboard stops! what next!
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WanMan
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Sounds like a shared resource. Strange. Do you have a PS/2-USB adapter to try it on a USB port?
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AFryia
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| WanMan wrote: | | Do you have a PS/2-USB adapter to try it on a USB port? |
No unfortunately.
Works now though. Just had to download a 101 keyboard driver from Dell. Don't know why the WinXP default drivers wouldn't work.
What a PIA this has been.
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