bios problem?

[Guest]

i have a computer htat doesn't find the cd rom on a cold start, but on rebooting, it sees it just fine...

any ideas on where to start?

 

[OldBear]

Please list your hardware and we will try.

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[girish]

Bad CD-ROM drive, but may be an incompetant IDE controller most probably named VIA!

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[Guest]

Some BIOSes have a delay for IDE detection. I needed a 1 sec. delay with my old CD-Drive.

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[Unolocogringo]

Make sure you have the drive jumpers configured properly.

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[Guest]

i forget what mobo, but it's an intel 440bx chipset, award bios 4.51PG, creative labs 48x cd-rom.

i tried the delay time, but when it finds it, it is immediate, if there is any lagtime, i know it won't locate it. the drive is set up as master on the secondary ide channel.

btw, i put this in the wrong forum, the system is a celeron 433/66 not overclocked.

 

[Unolocogringo]

IS it A single drive or do you also have a slave drive???
If you do not have a slave drive try setting it to CS or some drives have a setting for single drive.
The master setting is for when you have two drives on the same ribbon connector or IDE channel.One is master the other slave.

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[Guest]

hey rick!
i have tried it as both master & slave during my trials with it. It NEVER works from a cold start, it ALWAYS works (master or slave) from a soft reboot (selecting restart from win98 shutdown applet).

i tried disabling dma for the drive in device properties (w98se), no change from before, it takes a restart for the drive to be recognized. there are no other drives on the secondary ide channel.

I have set up at least 15 computers over the years, never had this happen...I guess i could stick the drive in my personal system to see if it is the cdrom or the motherboard.

thanks for your replies!
rob

 

[Unolocogringo]

Yes but did you try it in the CS (cable select) or single drive setting??????? NOT master or SLAVE IF it is a single drive setting it to master or slave confuses the Ide controller and drive.
Like your post stated this is a single drive on this IDE channel. So it can not be master or slave.These settings are for when you have two drives on a single IDE cable.
And yes many drives will work when missconfigured. But some will not. So try either cs or NO jumper at all.

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[camieabz]

You might have a setting your BIOS which sets a delay time, allowing the system to detect IDE devices. Perhaps setting this value to a higher value might help.

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