Vanishing CD drives

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I am 95% certain that this is a MoBo issue rather than a Win XP issue, but I
wanted to cover all my bases.

Background:

Secondary controller has two drives. Jumpered as Master is a CD-RW. Jumpered
as Slave is a CD-ROM.
Cold Boot: BIOS detects and lists both drives correctly. Device Manager and
Windows Explorer lists both drives correctly.
Warm Boot: BIOS detects and lists both drives correctly. Device Manager and
Windows Explorer lists the CD-RW drive but neither utility lists the CD-ROM
drive.

Problem:

After a cold boot, if I put CD in the CD-ROM drive, my system becomes
unresponsive. Three-Finger-Salute restores my system. After the Salute,
however, both the CD-ROM drive, and the CD-RW drive have disappeared from
both Device Manager and Windows Explorer.
[After a warm boot, of course, the CD-ROM drive is invisible to Windows XP
so the problem is moot.]

Other info:
CD-RW drive is accessible after either a warm boot or after a cold boot.

TIA,

Steve
 
Have you ever considered that the slave CD-Rom drive is "flaky" or "dead".
Eventhough the CD-ROM is not available to Windows, it is still taking power
and IDE signals from you motherboard. CD-Rom drives can fail.
 
Yves:

I knew I forgot to mention something... Swapped the slave CD-ROM drive with
a working drive from another system. Same result: drive "flakiness" stays
with the system, not with the drive.

thanks,

steve.


Yves Leclerc said:
Have you ever considered that the slave CD-Rom drive is "flaky" or "dead".
Eventhough the CD-ROM is not available to Windows, it is still taking
power and IDE signals from you motherboard. CD-Rom drives can fail.


Og said:
I am 95% certain that this is a MoBo issue rather than a Win XP issue, but
I wanted to cover all my bases.

Background:

Secondary controller has two drives. Jumpered as Master is a CD-RW.
Jumpered as Slave is a CD-ROM.
Cold Boot: BIOS detects and lists both drives correctly. Device Manager
and Windows Explorer lists both drives correctly.
Warm Boot: BIOS detects and lists both drives correctly. Device Manager
and Windows Explorer lists the CD-RW drive but neither utility lists the
CD-ROM drive.

Problem:

After a cold boot, if I put CD in the CD-ROM drive, my system becomes
unresponsive. Three-Finger-Salute restores my system. After the Salute,
however, both the CD-ROM drive, and the CD-RW drive have disappeared from
both Device Manager and Windows Explorer.
[After a warm boot, of course, the CD-ROM drive is invisible to Windows
XP so the problem is moot.]

Other info:
CD-RW drive is accessible after either a warm boot or after a cold boot.

TIA,

Steve
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