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Can't detect secondary master and slave
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My two CD-ROMs have completely stopped responding. Yesterday, if I clicked on the drives in win explorer enough times I'd get a listing but today nothing! When the computer boots up, NO secondary devices are detected any more. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Could it be the IO controller on my motherboard? Cable? My motherboard is an Asus CUVX4 Thank you in advance for any help! cp |
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"db" wrote in message .. . "cp" wrote in message . ca... Hi, My two CD-ROMs have completely stopped responding. Yesterday, if I clicked on the drives in win explorer enough times I'd get a listing but today nothing! When the computer boots up, NO secondary devices are detected any more. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Could it be the IO controller on my motherboard? Cable? My motherboard is an Asus CUVX4 Thank you in advance for any help! cp Swap your ide cables over, see what happens. If it doesn't boot get a new ide cable. Very unlikely indeed that BOTH cables would go bad at once with BOTH secondary drives not being seen. Check your hardware devices, see if they are still listed and enabled. Very unlikely indeed that BOTH secondary drives wouldnt be enabled. If they arent visible they likely wont be listed. |
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"Rod Speed" wrote in message Swap your ide cables over, see what happens. If it doesn't boot get a new ide cable. Very unlikely indeed that BOTH cables would go bad at once with BOTH secondary drives not being seen. Who said anything about BOTH cables going bad? You put the hdd ide cable on the cds, and the cd cable on the hdd. If it boots ok the cd cable is working ok, if you didn't have an ide cable on the hdd how can you test the cd ide cable? What are you suggesting ? Check your hardware devices, see if they are still listed and enabled. Very unlikely indeed that BOTH secondary drives wouldnt be enabled. If they arent visible they likely wont be listed. Still check to see if they are there. BOTH OF THEM. Apart from trying to make a mockery of my suggested answers which he should try out, what exactly did you add to the answer? bugger all as far as i can see db |
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My two CD-ROMs have completely stopped responding.
Yesterday, if I clicked on the drives in win explorer enough times I'd get a listing but today nothing! When the computer boots up, NO secondary devices are detected any more. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Could it be the IO controller on my motherboard? Cable? My motherboard is an Asus CUVX4 Swap your ide cables over, see what happens. If it doesn't boot get a new ide cable. Very unlikely indeed that BOTH cables would go bad at once with BOTH secondary drives not being seen. Who said anything about BOTH cables going bad? He clearly said that BOTH secondary drives stopped working. Exactly. He said both SECONDARY, not both SLAVES. The secondary Master and Slave are both on the SAME cable that goes into the secondary IDE controller on the motherboard. My initial feeling is that if they sometimes work and sometimes don't then it's probably a flaky connection somewhere, either in the cable or the connection to the motherboard. |
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