Tina
1st.you need to get that cd out of the drive.
The Paperclip trick will work if the rom is not dead or to say the parts inside are 
not damaged, it's made for just that.
When the PC boots up it checks the rom to see if it's ok ,it will spin it just for 
a sec.and if it can't you will get a error message.
You may need to remove the rom from the machine to get the cd disk out if you can't 
replace it with a new one for about 10.oo bucks.
If you are lucky and you get it out without taking the rom down to parts put it back 
in and try it one more time.
If you still have the same error replace the rom .

The F1 call is standard help key item.

Once you get to that point and repost about the "incompatible ATAPI" error.






On Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 2:26 am, Tina wrote:

>Hello all, I would appreciate your help so much. I've lost my d drive/cdrom, I get 

>F1 message on start up, it says sec master drive incompatible ATAPI, I have a CD 

>stuck in the cd rom and the paperclip trick didn't work. I also see SMART capable 

>but not enabled. CD says its not attached to computer. Please help! Tina 

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