1. Make sure that the settings in the BIOS are correct. Enable the IDE channel, and make sure the BIOS knows there are two drives on that channel. 2. Check the IDE cable. It almost certainly needs to be an ATA/66/100 job. Swap it out. Rearrange the drives on the cable. 3. Make sure that both drives are getting power. Check to make sure your power supply provides enough juice to run all of the drives and expansion cards (PCI, AGP, etc) that you have. That may be the problem; some cheaper power supplies will come rated at xxx watts but can't continuously provide more than 2/3 of that. 4. Check the jumpers on the drives. Hope that was helpful. Mike Hord >From: Andre Abelian >Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list >To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >Subject: [ot]: cd-rom and cd-r doesn' t work >Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:27:51 -0700 > >Hi to all engineers, > >Finally after working on my pc for about 3-4 hours I give up. >CD-ROM and CDR are connected to same IDE bus one is master and >The other one is slave. >What did I check? > >1. IDE itself works >2. CD-ROM can boot from any bootable CD >3. in windows 2000 says ( device is not working properly) >4. I uninstalled and reinstalled same thing >5. I always install and uninstall lots of software >6. I have service pack 3 and other recommended updates from msn > >any idea will appreciate > >Andre > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different >ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.