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    gwillis is offline Sr Mem but still learning
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    IDE Controller

    Installed 2 new harddrive to system. Now CD Rom is not seen. Have Intel 82371 SB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller. When I go into device mgr, Primary IDE and Secondary IDE are showing in error (yellow with !) Is that the reason CD Rom not being seen? How can I fix the problem?

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    Can anyone give me any ideas? I've never run across this problem before. Thanks!

    Also, it's a Compaq Deskpro 2000. No information on how to get to BIOS. F2, F10 and DEL does not seem to do the trick.

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    Yes,

    "When I go into device mgr, Primary IDE and Secondary IDE are showing in error (yellow with !)"

    Do you also have a "DUAL IDE CONTROLLER" listed?, you should.

    Highlight it go to properties, and make sure both IDE channells are enabled.

    How do you have them jumpered?

    CDROM a Master or slave and to what?

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    Yes, they are dual fifo. CD Rom is Master with Second harddrive slave. The system sees the hard drive, not the CD Rom. I don't know about the jumper? I'm at work right now but will check this out when I get home. Thanks.

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    Just wondering - does it make any difference if I have the smaller of the 2 hard drives set up as master and the other one slave? They are 2.1 Gig and 3.2 Gig. My biggest concern is that the CD Rom is not showing anywhere. I can't load drivers from Win 95 CD without it. Maybe I'll just take out all the drives, and start over.

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    The size of the drive does not matter, the yellow ! is a concern and is why the cdrom is not being loaded.. You have to get the controllers working 1st.

    I would confige them this way:

    IDE #1 (MASTER) Hard Drive with Operating system on it

    SLAVE other Hard drive

    IDE#2 MASTER CDROM

    Shouldn't put a hard drive as a slave to a cdrom, as the BIOS may see the cdrom as a Hard Drive.

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    Thanks Murf. That's what I was afraid of. Will switch the hard drive config first thing and will let you know.

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    Murf - I hooked the 2 hard drives together and put the CD Rom on Master Secondary. Ran Win98 startup disk, it saw the CD Rom, I reinstalled Win95 and everything is fine now. Will remember not to hook hd as slave to CD rom. Thanks for the assistance.

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    No problem Windows is kind of picky when it comes to what it wants to see....

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