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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re: WinME won't detect my CD-RW Drive... Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 7:16 pm Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted) Simple. When you jumpered the two drives the same and powered up the system, Windows ME Plug and Play saw a major hardware failure that it could not resolve, flagged the secondary IDE channel as having problems and shutdown its IDE support for non disk drive devices. Until you remove all of these conflicts and flags, it will remain so. Now that the hardware is sorted out, there are several steps you still need to do. 1) Boot the system into its BIOS CMOS Setup and reset the BIOS Plug and Play configuration data in case it is still messed up. Go to the PnP/PCI Configurations section and Enable the Reset Configuration Data or ESCD option. Save the setup and exit. BIOS will rebuild the DMI Configuration table. Some vendor system do not have this option, but just do it automatically when you enter/exit CMOS Setup. 2) Boot normally and go to Device Manager, select the items under IDE Controller that are still flagged as having problems and with them each highlighted, click the "Remove" button to remove them from the current system configuration. Then reboot the system. PnP should find them and reload the device drivers. 3) {optional step to clean up PnP for CD-Rom drives} Reboot system into Safe Mode and go to Device Manager again, and expand the CDROM entry. If any CD-Rom device is listed that is not currently on your system, select each/all of the CDROM devices and click Remove for each of them. Plug and Play will find them again and not have to worry about devices that have been removed or were listed in error. Reboot into normal mode. 4) Start - RUN - REGEDIT, and do a search of the system Registry for NOIDE parameter. If found, delete the entry from the system Registry, exit and reboot the system. All should be well with the CD-Rom drives and you can finish loading any new software you need for them. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum