Secondary IDE not recognized

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Randy

May be coincidental, but after installing XP SP1 and
rebooting, the secondary IDE is not recognized by bios
and therefore do not show in Device Manager.
Motherboard is an Intel Billings 2 D845EBG2/Pendleton 2
D845EPT2.

There are 2 CD-RW on the secondary ide.

Thanks in advance for any help !
 
This would have to be coincidental. The system BIOS operates at a much lower
level that Windows, and at the point in which the BIOS should be detecting
drives, Windows has not even started to boot. Sort of a chicken and the egg
thing. The drives have to be detected and spin up just so that the system
can hit the boot sector of the drive in the first place, which is what
starts Windows.

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