Optical Devices Missing/Unavailable

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Anyone have any experience with similar?

Presarion 7485
W98SE
AMD K6-550
512MB

- DVD Player and CD-R drives do not show in WinExplorer, nor are
they accessible via autorun (disk insert).

- On boot, ATAPI loads and detects 2 devices, but occassionally
hangs at that load point during boot.

- All physical cables are firmly connected.

- Device Manager shows (!) for Secondary IDE controller (both opticals
are on that bus). IDE2 device is present, proper drivers are loaded
per update/replace driver in device properties.

- Only DVD shows in Device Manager (but with red X) and indicates
broken IDE2 dependency.

For a while, there was sporadic access to DVD device. When "discovered"
by system it worked properly. But system no longer finds it (since system
no longer finds IDE2).

I have a feeling the onboard controller is toast, but though I'd ask before
buying a new card. Is something else to try?
 
Anyone have any experience with similar?

Presarion 7485
W98SE
AMD K6-550
512MB

- DVD Player and CD-R drives do not show in WinExplorer, nor are
they accessible via autorun (disk insert).

- On boot, ATAPI loads and detects 2 devices, but occassionally
hangs at that load point during boot.

- All physical cables are firmly connected.

- Device Manager shows (!) for Secondary IDE controller (both opticals
are on that bus). IDE2 device is present, proper drivers are loaded
per update/replace driver in device properties.

- Only DVD shows in Device Manager (but with red X) and indicates
broken IDE2 dependency.

For a while, there was sporadic access to DVD device. When "discovered"
by system it worked properly. But system no longer finds it (since system
no longer finds IDE2).

I have a feeling the onboard controller is toast, but though I'd ask before
buying a new card. Is something else to try?
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Try deleting the Secondary IDE from Device Manager. Power
off, unplug IDE cable from secondary plug on motherboard,
then boot system to windows and see if it's detected, and/or
shows any problem with NO devices attached.

Often a problem is result of one of the drives failing, if
secondary channel looks ok when unused, try one drive at a
time, jumpered properly of course.
 
kony said:
Try deleting the Secondary IDE from Device Manager. Power
off, unplug IDE cable from secondary plug on motherboard,
then boot system to windows and see if it's detected, and/or
shows any problem with NO devices attached.

Often a problem is result of one of the drives failing, if
secondary channel looks ok when unused, try one drive at a
time, jumpered properly of course.
Click to expand...

Thank you kony. Sounds like a good bit of advice. I will report back (just didn't want your
note to go unresponded to or unthanked).
 
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