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re: Question about 'Resolving Hardware Conflicts'
Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 9:03 pm
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Posted by OR (4 messages posted)

You should set both Hard drives as Masters 1, and 2, and set the CD's DVD's as Slave 1, and 2. I believe that should fix your problem Or

On Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 3:47 pm, John wrote:
>I have a question about Resolving
>Hardware Conflicts:

>I'm running XP Professional at SP1 and have just replaced a u/s cd-rom burner with
>a new one. I also have a dvd-rom. Both these devices are on the secondary IDE cable,
>with master/slave set accordingly. The primary IDE has my 2 hard drives on it.
>The BIOS confirms all the above, but XP seems unable to detect both readers in safe
>mode and hangs whenever I boot up normally. Can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong.
>

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Question about 'Resolving Hardware Conflicts' (John: Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 3:47 pm)

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re: Question about 'Resolving Hardware Conflicts' (C K: Friday, November 28, 2003 at 12:03 am)

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Question about 'Resolving Hardware Conflicts' (John: Thu, Nov 27, 2003, 3:47 pm)

re: Question about 'Resolving Hardware Conflicts' (OR: Thu, Nov 27, 2003, 9:03 pm)

re: Question about 'Resolving Hardware Conflicts' (C K: Fri, Nov 28, 2003, 12:03 am)

re: Question about 'Resolving Hardware Conflicts' (Anonymouse: Sun, Nov 30, 2003, 10:25 am)

re: Question about 'Resolving Hardware Conflicts' (Freeze: Fri, Jan 2, 2004, 6:15 am)

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