sue mccartin
April 21st 03, 01:40 PM
Well, can I assume you've used these items on this board
before with no problems under a different os?
Double check the stupid stuff first. Go into the board
bios and be sure that your motherboard can see the
drives. If they are connected on the same cable that can
sometimes be a problematic install--if one is faster than
the other the slower one will definetly slow down the
faster one.
If your motherboard bios can see the drives, try a
different cable and/or look for a bios update, something
about your ide controller might be giving xp a hiccup. If
you've got a really new board it might also have some
options in there for ultra versus non ultra ide cables--
play with those settings. Of course while you're in there
also check that ultra dma is enabled if either of your
drives is capable of using it.
I have had at least one motherboard in the recent past
where I couldn't have two cd devices (i.e. burner and dvd
reader) installed on the same cable. You can get a usb 2
or firewire external cabinet that will hold one of your cd
devices (they are down to about fifty bucks) and it should
work just fine and be a much less problematic install.
When posting a message like yours it is always extremely
helpful to post your hardware list. Have you gone to the
newsgroup for your motherboard manufacturer and looked for
posts from others seeing the same issue?
>-----Original Message-----
>recently installed xp only to find my cd/dvd drive and my
>cdr drive wont work.in device manager it shows yellow
>errors but no drives shown in under 'my computer'
>the cd/dvd is a compaq 116 drive and the cdr is a
>phillips 4801.The system is compaq pressieo 5113uk amd900.
>is there a patch somewhere to fix this..
>thanks john..
>.
>
before with no problems under a different os?
Double check the stupid stuff first. Go into the board
bios and be sure that your motherboard can see the
drives. If they are connected on the same cable that can
sometimes be a problematic install--if one is faster than
the other the slower one will definetly slow down the
faster one.
If your motherboard bios can see the drives, try a
different cable and/or look for a bios update, something
about your ide controller might be giving xp a hiccup. If
you've got a really new board it might also have some
options in there for ultra versus non ultra ide cables--
play with those settings. Of course while you're in there
also check that ultra dma is enabled if either of your
drives is capable of using it.
I have had at least one motherboard in the recent past
where I couldn't have two cd devices (i.e. burner and dvd
reader) installed on the same cable. You can get a usb 2
or firewire external cabinet that will hold one of your cd
devices (they are down to about fifty bucks) and it should
work just fine and be a much less problematic install.
When posting a message like yours it is always extremely
helpful to post your hardware list. Have you gone to the
newsgroup for your motherboard manufacturer and looked for
posts from others seeing the same issue?
>-----Original Message-----
>recently installed xp only to find my cd/dvd drive and my
>cdr drive wont work.in device manager it shows yellow
>errors but no drives shown in under 'my computer'
>the cd/dvd is a compaq 116 drive and the cdr is a
>phillips 4801.The system is compaq pressieo 5113uk amd900.
>is there a patch somewhere to fix this..
>thanks john..
>.
>