WinME won't detect my CD-RW Drive...
Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 6:37 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kyth
(1 messages posted)
Maybe someone here can help me...
Here's what happened:
-I bought an LG brand CD-RW drive (model GCE-8525B)
-I installed it as Secondary Slave (with another CDROM drive as Master, or so I thought).
-Booted up my computer and got a blue screen that said something about the "Standard
Dual PCI IDE Controller" having child devices and something about some using 32-bit
drivers and others using compatibility mode drivers. I have no idea what that meant...
-My computer stopped and said something like, "Startup has halted."
-I checked the jumpers again and saw that the other drive was actually set to Slave,
too.
-Switched jumpers so that CDROM drive was Master and CDRW was Slave on the Secondary
IDE.
-Booted up computer.
-BIOS detected drives ok.
-WinME loaded up and detected the drives as "Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller"
-After WinME finished loading, I looked in My Computer and saw no CDROM or CDRW icon.
-Checked Control Panel-->System Properties-->Device Manager. There was no CDROM
listing. However, there was, under the Hard Disk Controller icon, a listing for
Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller. Also, a listing for Primary IDE controller (single
fifo) and Secondary IDE controller (single fifo) - both with exclamation marks.
I've tried updating drivers. I've tried swapping the Slave/Master positions of my
drives. I've tried customer support and have gotten nothing that resembles competant
help.
From what I can gather, Windows is having issues detecting my CDROM drives, and I've
gotten to the point where I have no clue what to do.
Please help me!
Kyth =^.^="
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