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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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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Wrong.. Can not have two master devices, or two slaves on one channel. You must jumper one master and one slave per channel. The newer device is usually set as master but not always for ATAPI devices. Some run better as masters or slaves. The manufacturer's directions should be consulted to be sure. Unless you jump for cable select, make sure that the master device is on the end connector and the slave is on the middle connector. C K


On Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 9:03 pm, OR wrote:
>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
>
>

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Some devices are fussy about master/slave configuration. Which is the master, the CD burner or the DVD? On my PC running 98/2000, I have the burner as master and the DVD as slave, and I've never had a hardware conflict. You could try swapping the two around and resetting jumpers accordingly. At worst it won't work. :)
Failing that, try reinstalling the CD burner and DVD software. Failing that, I'm out of ideas.
But OR's definitely wrong. Plus it isn't recommended to put a hard drive and a CD or DVD on the same IDE channel; you've got that part exactly right.


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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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.
>

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