Vanishing CD drives

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Have you ever considered that the slave CD-Rom drive is "flaky" or "dead".
Eventhough the CD-ROM is not available to Windows, it is still taking power
and IDE signals from you motherboard. CD-Rom drives can fail.


"Og" <Og@msn.com> wrote in message
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>I am 95% certain that this is a MoBo issue rather than a Win XP issue, but
>I wanted to cover all my bases.
>
> Background:
>
> Secondary controller has two drives. Jumpered as Master is a CD-RW.
> Jumpered as Slave is a CD-ROM.
> Cold Boot: BIOS detects and lists both drives correctly. Device Manager
> and Windows Explorer lists both drives correctly.
> Warm Boot: BIOS detects and lists both drives correctly. Device Manager
> and Windows Explorer lists the CD-RW drive but neither utility lists the
> CD-ROM drive.
>
> Problem:
>
> After a cold boot, if I put CD in the CD-ROM drive, my system becomes
> unresponsive. Three-Finger-Salute restores my system. After the Salute,
> however, both the CD-ROM drive, and the CD-RW drive have disappeared from
> both Device Manager and Windows Explorer.
> [After a warm boot, of course, the CD-ROM drive is invisible to Windows XP
> so the problem is moot.]
>
> Other info:
> CD-RW drive is accessible after either a warm boot or after a cold boot.
>
> TIA,
>
> Steve
>
>

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Yves:

I knew I forgot to mention something... Swapped the slave CD-ROM drive with
a working drive from another system. Same result: drive "flakiness" stays
with the system, not with the drive.

thanks,

steve.


"Yves Leclerc" <yleclercNOSPAM@maysys.com> wrote in message
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> Have you ever considered that the slave CD-Rom drive is "flaky" or "dead".
> Eventhough the CD-ROM is not available to Windows, it is still taking
> power and IDE signals from you motherboard. CD-Rom drives can fail.
>
>
> "Og" <Og@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:e71VtsIpFHA.1044@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>I am 95% certain that this is a MoBo issue rather than a Win XP issue, but
>>I wanted to cover all my bases.
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> Secondary controller has two drives. Jumpered as Master is a CD-RW.
>> Jumpered as Slave is a CD-ROM.
>> Cold Boot: BIOS detects and lists both drives correctly. Device Manager
>> and Windows Explorer lists both drives correctly.
>> Warm Boot: BIOS detects and lists both drives correctly. Device Manager
>> and Windows Explorer lists the CD-RW drive but neither utility lists the
>> CD-ROM drive.
>>
>> Problem:
>>
>> After a cold boot, if I put CD in the CD-ROM drive, my system becomes
>> unresponsive. Three-Finger-Salute restores my system. After the Salute,
>> however, both the CD-ROM drive, and the CD-RW drive have disappeared from
>> both Device Manager and Windows Explorer.
>> [After a warm boot, of course, the CD-ROM drive is invisible to Windows
>> XP so the problem is moot.]
>>
>> Other info:
>> CD-RW drive is accessible after either a warm boot or after a cold boot.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>
>