re: Question about 'Resolving Hardware Conflicts' Friday, January 2, 2004 at 6:15 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Freeze (2 messages posted) i think what Or meant to say is, to set both harddrives as master 1 & 2 not in one channel, but master on primary channel and set the other hardrives as master on secondary channel. and so the cd/dvd drive as slave in primary/secondary channel. pis 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. > Written in response to: Question about 'Resolving Hardware Conflicts' (John: Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 3:47 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum